Nerikomi ‘rainforest’

 

My early years of nerikomi patterns are all geometric repetitive forms, somehow, I felt that it is the best expression of the technique.

nerikomi 'Rainforest'

nerikomi 'Rainforest'

Then I played with making free hand curve pattern, starting with slices of black and white lines, formed into leaf shape, overlapping to form a block of pattern, named it nerikomi ‘Rainforest’.

 

I enjoyed the process very much, and like the organic curve look. Since then, every year, I make a couple each of geometric and free hand patterns.