Krokus
Crocuses that don't grow on trees, drawn as if they did.
The flower that announces spring
Crocuses don't grow on trees. Karolina knows this. She drew Krokus anyway after picturing one, something like a magnolia, but built from crocuses instead of magnolia flowers, and that's how the pattern took shape, with Tove Jansson's illustrated flowers somewhere in the back of her mind. She drew it dense and soft, at a smaller scale than her other patterns, so the small explosion of shapes stays playful rather than busy. Look closely and you'll find the pistils reaching out past the petals; she thinks of them as the flower's antennae, feeling their way into the world.
Krokus, before the wall
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The full drawing. Krokus scaled up from a small sketchbook study to its full repeat, pencil first.
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Roller and roll, side by side. The engraved cylinder and the pattern it leaves behind, slowed down to see both at once.
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Krokus Whispering Beige. The crocus branches printed barely there in the softest cream, coming off the press.
One pattern, four rooms
Shown at the same scale, in the same light. Open one to see it on a wall and order a sample.
Krokus, in a sample set
A4 samples of the real paper, posted flat. See Krokus against the room before you commit to a roll, on its own or beside the patterns it lives well with.
The Krokus set
All four colourways, side by side
- KrokusSmokey Blue
- KrokusWhispering Beige
- KrokusForest Green
- KrokusNorthern Rose
The thunder-sky set
The recurring grey-blue Karolina calls a thunder sky, Krokus at its centre
- KrokusSmokey Blue
- FrodasSlate Blue
- FrövivaLight Blue Ash
- CitrusLapis Blue
