Here Be Dragons (Scaled Down)

A dragon curve is the shape produced by folding a long strip of paper many times and then opening it out so that each fold becomes a right angle.
The colours of the lines on these scarves represent the directions of the folds in the strips which result if the strip is folded different numbers of times. You can see how on each new scarf, extra lines are added in each of the gaps between the existing lines. At each stage, the new lines are alternately blue and white. Our Chromatic Scale afghan is made up of strips like these.


	An interesting feature of dragon curves is that they fit together to completely cover a surface, as illustrated by the bags and scarf shown here and by this afghan. Both of the scarves shown on this page feature in the Mufflermatics collection.

These three rugs are also based on dragons fitting together. In the first rug, the tail ends of four Order 6 dragons meet in the middle. In the second, four Order 5 dragons meet head-to-head in the middle and are surrounded by four Order 6 dragons joined head-to-tail. In the third, the head ends of four Order 6 dragons meet in the middle. All three rugs contain dragons of different sizes and all three have the same pattern of colours around their outside edges.

This crochet cushion shows dragons of different sizes on top of one another. All the crochet chains are the same length but for the higher order dragons, they are compressed into smaller spaces. This is explained in the Dragonometry booklet.

We have written these three booklets about dragon curves. The designs on this page are all crochet and are featured in the booklet called Scaled Down