I'm Jennifer Lankenau, though most people call me Niff. I'm a Seattle illustrator and the maker behind Ornamentium Designs.

For more than thirty years I've worked in pen and ink, drawn to pattern, ornament, and the kind of detail you only notice if you look twice. That work has taken the form of mandalas, Gothic architecture, Venetian masks, egg painting, and client commissions. I'm a published coloring book illustrator, and in 2016 my Candy Canes design was one of thirteen illustrations chosen for Starbucks' holiday cups. Please visit https://niffiner.myportfolio.com/ to see my full artist portfolio.

I married into a family that has sourced and prepared fossils and minerals for more than four decades, much of it from Morocco, which is a polite way of saying there were already a great many stones in the house. Wire wrapping became my way of working with that inventory and of bringing the same sense of structure and ornament I use on paper into metal and stone.

Every Ornamentium piece is one of a kind, woven by hand from bare copper, silver-plated copper, brass, or silver-filled wire, with no solder or glue.

Each one ships in a hand-lettered, personalized gift bag with a cord, a polishing cloth, and a postcard print of one of my illustrations.

When I'm not at the bench or the drawing table, I like to lift heavy and hike long distances. I'll be showing at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show in January and February 2027.