Serpentin
Climbing branches, drawn so the repeat is hard to find.
A pattern that grew by itself
Serpentin started with one goal: draw something dense but still airy, with no visible seam. Karolina began with the branches, aiming for a dancing kind of movement in the leaves, and says the rest more or less grew on its own from there. She spent a long time making sure the repeat was hard to spot at first glance. The small berries scattered through it aren't decoration exactly; they're there to add a bit of tension, without taking over. She wanted a room with Serpentin in it to feel as calm and alive as being outside.
Serpentin, before the wall
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The first branch. Serpentin began as a single climbing stem, inked before the leaves multiplied around it.
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The engraving, close up. Serpentin's climbing leaves, cut into the roller that prints them.
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Four colourways, side by side. Blue, sage, terracotta and ochre, unrolled together to see how they sit next to each other.
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Ochre, up close. Inside the press as the ochre colourway is worked into the engraving.
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Terracotta, exiting the press. The warmest of Serpentin's four colourways, freshly printed.
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.
Serpentin, in a sample set
A4 samples of the real paper, posted flat. See Serpentin against the room before you commit to a roll, on its own or beside the patterns it lives well with.
The Serpentin set
All four colourways, side by side
- SerpentinSunny Blue
- SerpentinSunny Ochre
- SerpentinWarm Terracotta
- SerpentinMoss Green
The warm set
A warm-toned mix across the catalogue, Serpentin at its centre
- SerpentinWarm Terracotta
- FrövivaSoft Mandarin
- KrokusNorthern Rose
- CitrusVibrant Bloom
