Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 1

It’s been a moment since I last tried my hand at repeating patterns, or stamp carving. Today I’m diving back with an obviously much too ambitious project: carving a stamp for an hexagon-based pattern – also, small enough to repeat on the “end papers” of my A6-size sketchbook 😅️.

Yes, as an aeronautics engineer and daughter of 2 maths teachers I had to look up how to draw an hexagon with a compass and a ruler 😂 (childhood memories quickly came back though 😊️). And no, I did not look on the APMEP page (French association of maths teachers, that my parents are/were members of), what with their description on my search engine result beginning with: “everybody knows how to build a regular hexagon with a compass and ruler” 🙄😈…

Quickly tried it on repeat:

Looks a bit unbalanced :/ I guess I’ll try to tweak it a bit! Not yet sure how…

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