The basic, underlying unit is ‘two crossed cords in a square’. How to draw Celtic knots 1: CROSSED CORDS So here’s the first secret – the real starting point for how to draw Celtic knots is not a plait but a simpler unit – the building block of all Celtic knots: two crossed cords in a square. Cords cross each other, over and under, to make all plaits and interlaced patterns. The first project is The Book of Deer manuscript itself, and its scholarship. The first two designs come from the manuscript ’Book of Kells’, featuring the main bird motif the third design comes from the manuscript ’Book of Durrow’, depicting a lion. Amid the Latin text and the Celtic illuminations the 84 folios of the Book of Deer contain the oldest written Gaelic text in manuscript form from early Medieval Scotland. On this page you can download 3 Celtic zoomorphic designs found in the images of scanned pages of illuminated manuscripts. The one thing all plaits and weaves have in common is crossed cords (or crossed strands, cables, strings, lines, strips etc). The Book of Deer is a tenth century illuminated manuscript from North East Scotland. By interrupting this plait in certain ways, linked knots are created. All Celtic knotwork or interlace is based on the structure of a plait with (usually) two, three, four, five or six strands. When you learn how to draw Celtic knots, you’re actually learning how to plait on paper.
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