Patterns are all around us, in nature as well as in art and design. We see patterns where shapes, lines or colours are repeated. How complicated a pattern is depends on what is repeated and the way in ...

About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted. By Becky Ferreira In the stark inland desert of ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Weaving traditional Indian with contemporary motifs has a vocabulary of its own. As people borrow from Indian motifs and art and put it forward in a contemporary format, home interior experts reveal ...

Have a person that’s hard to make for? Why not try an ornament for their tree! These whip up in no time and cover inexpensive ...

Tulips and daffodils aren’t the only ones fighting their way to the surface these days. Florals are already in full bloom elsewhere: in home decor. Floral patterns are hot but they aren’t the tiny, ...

Tyrolean motifs, inspired by the traditional patterns of the Tyrol region in Austria and Italy, are making a comeback in ...