#Celtic knotwork

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Another asexual Celtic knot

[oldschoolfrp]

The best thing about a cloud castle is the view. The next best thing is the dungeon below, excavated down into the cloud, with soft white puffy walls. (AD&D 2e Dungeon Master’s Guide, TSR, 1989 -- I believe most of the DMG art with knotwork borders is by Jean E Martin) 

[tamburnbindery]

The Tamburn Celtic Illuminated Gospels - available now in handbound leather. Blind-tooling, gold-edged pages, and original illuminated art throughout makes this a one-of-a-kind book.

[ahollowyear]

There was another pattern on the back. Thanks past me for burning this wood a year and a half ago so I could color them in today.

[artofarklin]

Woad: Stone to Stone is a Solo Journaling TTRPG based on Welsh mythology and inspired by history. The game features a beautiful custom celtic tarot deck to play!

Fight the English. Befriend the Fae. Seek the Druids.

The game is live on @kickstarter now and is 70% funded already!!! I'm honestly blown away by the support thank you all so so much!

[thesolarangel]

Forth Eorlingas!

I finished this commission for @orehuna today! Thank you, it was so much fun!

Here's more info on my commissions

There's still 8 slots left!

[sugaredtea]

if you missed the kickstarter, you can pre-order these pins on my website now!

(etsy for eu ppl)

[lankinthemadmage]

As mentioned in this post, i've found it immensely satisfying to draw celtic knotwork(-ish) on graph paper.

So here's part 2 of that:

My first couple of attempts.

I think they get real pretty when filled with rainbows, even though it takes some math to make sure the transitions line up properly.

Did these two on the airplane today. Think maybe I'm getting better at this?

If anyone has any suggestions for patterns i should do next, feel free to dm me 🙂

[mythsandmonaidhean]

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I wasn't going to share this.

It's not that I didn't want to. But these days, putting any art online feels like casting very personal pearls before ravenous robot swine.

But then I saw that post about the cosplayer who shared her armour technique, in defiance of the urge to keep it secret, and I thought, stuff all this. AI may steal our work, but the saddest thing would be if AI stopped us from sharing it at all.

In the spirit of the old Internet, of sharing and collaboration and collective joy, here is the image I drew on Sunday as I listened to the minister talking about creation, the sun moon and stars.

[floweringglass]

Could have sworn I already posted this, and it is used for my header, but couldn't find it the other day when I was checking my finished tag to see if it would work as a portfolio.

So here is the Celtic knotwork piece that was the first pattern I ever drew myself

[starsandarrow]

Love some Celtic knotwork? Well do I have a some goodies for you!

[jpmorrow-art]

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[ahollowyear]

Celtic/Pictish Knotwork Part 1/?

In sitting down to explain how I managed to design a knotwork border for a previous embroidery project, I found I could not, because I didn't quite understand it myself, so here I'm going to lay down the very basics of Celtic/Pictish knotwork that I've learned from various sources.

First we'll do a two by two knot, and then a three by two knot.

SO. TO BEGIN. You make a bunch of grids! I did it in different colors so you can see them! BEHOLD.

Your PRIMARY GRID! 2 spaces by two spaces.

Next, you find the center of your blue boxes and put a nice pink dot in them. Connect the dots to make your SECONDARY GRID.

A single link. Very simple. Here it comes. Put a green X on each place where the PRIMARY grid crosses the SECONDARY grid. This gives you your TERTIARY GRID.

Now to draw the links that make the knot. Start in the upper left corner and head right. Imagine that the pink dots have gravity, but the green X's have more. Essentially, you will travel through the green X's until you hit a blue wall. Then you swing to the right around the closest pink dot and through the next green X. Then you will travel straight through the next green X's until you hit another blue wall. (This will be clearer in the second example, but I recommend doing this one first just to get the feel of it.) Proceed in this manner until you have filled in the grid. This one takes no time at all, but it can be multiplied many times and the same formula works.

Are there still green X's? Then you have another line to do!

Now here comes the magic. Go back to your tertiary grid. Decide left or right, it doesn't matter--I chose down to the right--and draw hash marks in that direction on the top green X. Go down to the next row of green X's (2 of them this time) and draw hash marks in the opposite direction. Go down to the last row, and again reverse the hashmarks to the original orientation. Then simply fill in your line, following the over/under hashmark guide.

Erase, and you have your simple knot.

3x2 grid now. This will result in one continuous line that snakes over and under itself. Grid layout:

Start at the top, and follow your lines through, swinging around pink dots at the periphery.

And like magic it sort of just...loops around. Connect it and put in your hashmarks--two, three, and two this time--and follow the guide.

Ink and erase to make it pretty - I didn't really bother making this nice and neat, but you get the idea.

Use a straight edge to make it look good lol, you can tell I did this freehand on my living room floor.

These rules eventually lead to stuff like this:

...and worse! Algorithmic! My favorite thing to do on long winter nights is set up a big one-line knot and then make my husband watch me connect it after he's had too many edibles. Then he accuses me of being a witch and it's a whole thing, good times. TBC maybe.

[artofarklin]

Woad:Stone to Stone is a solo journaling TTRPG based on Welsh Mythology and inspired by history. Travel through mythic Cymru in the 12th Century with a celtic Tarot Deck as your guide!

Fight the English. Befriend the Fae. Seek the Fae.

Woad was funded in 48 hours, as it nears the completion of it's kickstarter campaign help us unlock more stretch goals by backing now!

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