A group of tanglers is called a penchant of tanglers.

What a fun term—’a penchant of tanglers’! It’s fascinating to learn about the unique language of the Zentangle community. This blog post beautifully captures the creativity and camaraderie among artists. Can’t wait to join a group and create some art together!

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Any time I meet with someone to tangle-an individual or group, in person or online-I feel encouraged and affirmed through this beautiful creative practice. It’s always a gift!

I think penchant is perfect. (And I’m grateful the crows had already taken murder!)

My workshops take place in person, regularly, from September to June. Every year, since 2022, on June 30 we meet for an “Apéro’tangle” in a garden. The students first draw a voice guided tile. Then we eat and drink what everyone brought. As it was too long not to meet in July and August, I invented “papot’tangle”. In French “papoter” means to talk without a very serious subject, just to be together and communicate. The slogan of this moment is therefore: “Papot’tangle: on papote et on tangle”. This year we will meet twice in August.
Sylvie

Qué hermosa palabra, Penchant. Una definición perfecta, porque al enredar se canta siempre, antes, en y después del resultado, nuestra tesela es cada vez más afinada y nuestra voz así lo interpreta. Mis horas de té son esporádicas, generalmente con personas mayores a quienes Zentangle ha hecho el milagro de valorar sus virtudes, sus sueños y sus experiencias de vida, descubriendo a su edad un talento propio que estaba dormido. Sus sonrisas y sorpresas del trabajo realizado nos unen en total felicidad, igual que yo cuando comparto mis enredos con zentanglistas del mundo entero, son mis mejores amigos. Gracias siempre Rick y María!!!

I remember when you asked us all for our suggestions! And I so agree that “Penchant” is the perfect term. As a CZT, I realized after a year or so of teaching that I had become very fond of many of my students. So, I started a “Zentangle Club” to which all students who complete my Introductory Series of 4 classes are invited. We meet twice a month, usually at my house, to gather for tangling, talking, munching, laughing and sharing. We all love it and many personal friendships have been formed! The personal importance of this club to all who attend is obvious and fills me with gratitude!!

I 2017 I attended a “Bullet Journal” meeting (one time only intro) at a branch of our Library System. I asked about the “drawings” in the presenters journal….she introduced me to Zentangle and told me that there would be group meetings at another branch…my usual branch. The group meetings would be the 2nd Wednesday of each month. I have rarely missed a “Twisty Tangles” meeting. During Covid shutdowns, I began my YouTube journey, discovered Inktober & others that I now follow regularly. When our library resumed “Twisty Tangles” we picked up where we left off. The attendance varies but is has never been less than 10 Tanglers & still going 7 years later. Now on 2nd Tuesday each month. I actually plan my appointments & even vacations around the meetings.

I run two local groups called Tangle Time and we’ve created a great community. I teach my penchant tangles and they share stories of what’s going on in their worlds. It’s been amazing to see friendships flourish as a result, and to see people getting lost in their tangles, giving them a reprieve from their challenges. One lady says it’s like therapy. Thank you for this amazing thing you’ve created. It’s truly magical :)

In the kitchen we combine sauces, we also combine humanities. In the meetings to tangle also, diverse people meet, friendships are inaugurated… I have met endearing souls in this my time of tangler and czteu5; women loaded with power, consciousness and vision and creativity; You overflow with attention, kindness and humor.

We are the sum of the wonderful people that Life brings to our path. We build ourselves from all these lasting encounters, some fleeting and unexpected. I review the faces to try to stay with what each one of them brought to my life.
We are the sum of all experiences in person and online. Above all, I wish that my life constitutes the sum of all those thanks.

What a lovely name – Penchant, it is like pen & chanting zentangle together with fellow tanglers or Czt. Love my regular young buddies my kid students when I tangle and giggle with them… Next am part of a weekly tangling penchant group of czt across globe. What I look for his some fun & family time together with fellow czt and in return I love sharing my knowledge and learning. These penchant really brighten up your day and bonding together achieving the motive of Zentangle art….

Thank you for sharing the beautiful art and interesting blogs to us everytime….

Maya India czt 34.

My penchant of tanglers is a group of wonderful ladies who all met when we took a class from CZT Robin Tucker. We became Tucker’s Tanglers and we’ve been taking turns posting a weekly challenge in our FB group, as 2 of us have moved. This week’s challenge is #425!

I’m part of a penchant of tanglers that meets weekly on Wednesday evenings to tangle together, mostly in slience but with scattered comments and conversations. We meet on Zoom for about an hour and a half, although that can vary. There is one CZT among us, but she doesn’t claim leadership of the group. She does send us an Art Raffle (designed by Eni Oken) as a starting place. We get a lot of satisfaction from seeing how differently each of us interprets the tangles in the raffle. We also provide support for each other when any one of us is experiencing a life challenge. Some of us have never met in person but we have become friends. We all look forward to the life enhancements we experience every Wednesday evening through our zentangle bonding.

Pen-chant! A glorious song, delivered via a micron pen, through intention, focus, and beautiful renderings of pattern. It is a lovely way to collectively describe all of us who love Zentangle, who have a penchant for this type of amazing art.

Zentangle and the community that has flourished through the challenges of the Pandemic and a personal health crisis, has been life giving and continued to be such a huge blessing. When we were advised to not meet in person it was a struggle but as I know personally out the challenge and growing through it, we become stronger together! Being a part of the Seasonal Tangle events (@ZentAngie)’s creation continues to be such a wonderful gift to tangle with Tanglers all over the world!

I found my penchant when Covid hit. I started teaching on zoom twice a week and those same people are with me still once a week or entangled time. And as with most groups, we are now embeded with each other’s children and grandchildren and dogs. Last Sunday we had an official tea party- yes scones and cucumber sandwiches and chocolate covered strawberries of course.

I have just been lucky enough to be part of a Penchant of tanglers in Singapore at the Zenacity event run by Debbie Newczt. I met some of my zenfriends from the mosaic app who travelled from Japan, USA and Australia, as well joined in demonstrations from tutors also from Germany and Canada. How lucky am I to have joined the world wide penchant online for the first International day of Zentangle. I was with this penchant in the lobby of our Singapore hotel as we shared this very precious time. We did share tea time, but also cocktail time at 10pm Singapore time. Thank you Zentangle for adding to my life

The word “penchant” also contains the word “enchant”….also so fitting of this enchanting Zentangle world created for us by Rick, Maria et. al. Those of us enchanted by the Zentangle world in our respective penchant of tanglers are grateful!

Love it!!!

I am happy to be part of a penchant of tanglers who have been meeting regularly online since certification almost four years ago.
Over time, our group has even grown and we are nine people from seven different countries at the moment. It is very enriching.

Belonging to this international penchant of tanglers gives me joy and fulfillment.

Tangling reminds me of when my shoelaces would get snarled. My sister would carefully, lovingly and patiently follow the strings to unravel what to me was only a problem, not a challenge.
When I became ill and felt very alone. My sister recommended Zentangle and became my Penchant partner. She recognized I love the surprise and freedom inherent in the creative underground stream, that working together and sharing was a way to “see” and “talk” and be with each other through the tiles, across
thousands of miles of distance in the geographic tile. 4 corners. Gratitude. Paper and pen. Recipe for love.

I love the name for a group of tanglers! And I have a penchant for gathering with others to teach and practice this art form. I had a group in Michigan before we moved to Florida and I attend Sunday nights with a group there via Zoom. Then, I invited some new friends from our neighborhood to join me on Friday afternoons to learn and to have fun and talk about our lives. We’ve become friends, which is so nice when one has moved to a completely new place. They are loving the camaraderie we share and the support we give one another.

My penchant of tanglers is a drop-in group of 8 to 9 ladies who meet on Monday morning at our local senior activity center. I facilitate this group and teach a couple classes a month as a volunteer. We tangle, chat, complain, share recipes and then go to lunch in the centers cafe’ which is just around the corner from the room we tangle in. It’s a wonderful way to start the week and we all look forward to it.

Penchant is a perfect collective noun for tanglers!! I tangle with a small group in my Women’s Institute in the UK on a fairly ad hoc basis (we all have busy lives) and it’s an opportunity for us all to slow down and take a breath, catch up with each other and be creative. We all enjoy our zentangle time together!

I am a part of different groups that meet online and tangle regularly. My favourite penchant gives me a feeling of friendship, sisterhood and above all a sense of belonging! It’s like a common invisible thread that connects us together!