Celtic
Knotwork Designs
by Sheila Sturrock
Softcover
185 x 250mm
184pp
Published by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd, East Sussex UK
R.R.P.$29.90
ISBN 1-86108-040-9
Extract from back cover of book:
Create your own Celtic designs.
This completely new approach allows you to draw authentic Celtic knotwork designs by following a simple, step-by-step process. Over 200 designs are shown in easy stages, including building up the initial line drawing, identifying crossing points, and creating the characteristic celtic ribbonwork.
Learn how to make mitred corners, corner motifs and zoomorphic designs, including fish, snakes, dogs, birds and plants. Once the basic method has been understood, you can combine and adapt designs and create your own unique Celtic patterns.
Discover how to plot designs to fit any shape - irregular, circular, hexagonal - and how to add colour to give a truly Celtic brilliance.
In addition, a gallery of inspirational photography shows Celtic knotwork designs used in crafts as diverse as woodcarving and quilling, pyrography and beadwork, calligraphy and china painting.
Photos: Colour
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Tools & Techniques
History
Materials
& techniques
Part
Two: The Designs
Hearts
- Small hearts
- Large hearts
- Extending
the base
- Extending the top
- Extending the base & top
Loops
-
Small loops
- Large loops
- Extended loops
Combinations & Corners
-
Combined hearts & loops
- Straight lines
- Corner motifs
- Mitred
corners
Introduction to Zoomorphics
- Fish
- Snakes
- Dogs
- Birds
-
Plants
Part
Three: Adaptions & Decoration
Creating your own designs
Using knotwork
designs in other crafts
Colour & pattern in knotwork
About the author