#celtic design

[lunarsigilart]

Celtic bird. My artwork

[amylouioc]

🌀Swirly Celtic Scarf Restock🌀

Thought it was getting too warm for scarves and then was very swiftly corrected! Small restock of my remaining Swirly Celtic Scarves on Etsy now if anyone’s interested.

Shop here!

[themanedwolf]

My Christmas gift to my brother. I carved out the design then stained it using a mixture made of food coloring. In the close up pic you can see a bit of shine from my polishing, I'm so happy.

[Image Description: Three photos of a buck deer skull that has been carved to bear two designs. The first design sits on the forehead and is a Celtic square knot. The second design is a triple infinity twist that goes down the nose. Both designs are carved with the blank spaces as holes and the raised lines stained a bright, light green.]

^is that how I do image descriptions?

[ahollowyear]

First one I think I'm happy with. Now to let it cure out of the dog's reach and then seal it. Beet, saffron, and blueberry in egg tempera. A touch of madrone, too.

[mayax81]

Reblogs appreciated but please don't repost/reupload/use.

[kultofathena]

Lord of Battles – Celtic Spiral Leather Bracer Set in Brown, Green, and Red

A ranger like you needs no introduction because these bracers speak it all for you and your grandeur! With the embossed Celtic spiral design, you are not just any wanderer of the woods, you are the true ranger of the woods.

These bracers are artistically handcrafted from robust genuine buff leather. A set of genuine leather strings is provided for a highly adjustable fit. Each bracer has a length of approx. 16 cm, upper width of approx. 18 cm, and lower width of approx. 14 cm.

[bhrarchinerd]

Majuscule Alphabet with Knotwork Border

Belated Throwback Thursday.  Found this now decades-old file on a portable hard drive.

Tried creating some Celtic art in AutoCAD based on lessons from Aidan Meehan's Celtic Design books, and it came out pretty well.

I had originally put colour in the border, knotwork and key patters in the form of solid hatches, but that didn't turn out well when I tried producing a raster image.  I'll try to find a better way of doing it later, or maybe use another program to add colour.

[otterartificer]

New Book!

Ok so it's from a charity shop, but that's where all the best books are!

It's got tutorials on drawing types of Celtic design including step and key patterns and of course spirals. And all with citations to the manuscripts they are found in! And ideas for decorative lettering and Celtic script font with calligraphy pens.

I'm going to try some of these (probably on dotted paper) over Xmas hols.

[irishmeadows]

Eva McKee, Irish Artisan

Card with black pen-and-ink Celtic design and text of Saint Patrick’s Breastplate prayer, Box 1, Folder 1, Eva McKee Collection, MS.2005.06, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

[confusednokia]

Somehow got stuck watching ancient aliens with my dad and they were studying these spiral crop circles in Northern England and they were wondering what these mean and why they were there. Like yes, I am also wondering why a circle in some crops, which are likely grown by someone who has decended from a Celtic nation, would draw a spiral, which is a common symbol in Celtic graphic design. It it that the crop owner is displaying their Celtic heratige....NAH MUST BE FUCKING ALIENS LAWL

i legit hate these people

[lunarsigilart]

My copy from the Book of Kells, illuminated manuscript created in the 9th century in Ireland

[vcreatures]

Gnomes are a small, ground dwelling, fairy found across most temperate forests, grasslands and in rare occasions mountain dwellings. They are one of the few fairies to be commonly found alongside human dwellings, having an affinity for their gardens. While most fairy beings can be seen as pests, the Gnome has managed to sway favor as they speak to a relatively good sign for agricultural communities. Having a Gnome is a good sign your crop is healthy and being tended too.

While most fairy species live relatively peacefully alongside one another, the Gnome is one of the few fairy species who do engage in warfare. This animosity is particularly found with Pixies.

Their “red cap” has become the moniker of the species. However this “cap” is not a piece of fashion, but a highly sensitive sensory organ used to help travel in their deep underground dens. They also act as a silent way to communicate with one another in dense brush or long grass. Only males of the species possess one. Female’s caps are small and dome-like, which they commonly adorn with flower crowns. The male’s cap doesn’t always remain active, they can actively render their cap flaccid, allowing them to burrow and squeeze into tight spaces. A male’s cap will grow throughout the course of his life, some reaching lengths double their body length. 

[thesilicontribesman]

11th Century CE 'Carreg Fedyddiol', Ancient Cross Pedestal, Margam Stones Museum, Margam, nr. Port Talbot, Wales

[joelchaimholtzman]

Painting of an Anglo Saxon warrior (female) that I made for myself a few years back! Got inspired by Germanic and Celtic regalia, an almost endless source of inspiration for these type of characters..

[ahollowyear]

I ended up liking this a lot more once it was installed in the garden so I'm going to talk to the void about it! The elements of this piece are all found in the Lindesfarne Gospels, which are my favorite of the celtic illuminated masterpieces, save for the by-design barely legible ogham ringing the outside rim, which is stained with a “cabernet” color that was much darker than I anticipated but that worked out really well. The knotwork is simple, and I wanted to do a double line with double interlacing but my skills are not up to this quite yet. However, the thinness of the knot and the evenness of the line around the perimeter I think attest to real progress on this front. My first attempts at some of these forms in wood were a bit jagged and unwieldy, but with practice I have achieved competence in the techniques needed for some of these designs. Regarding the center spirals, I wish I had tried for something very small and detailed and complicated, but I guess I’ll try to pull that off for the next one since I now have woodburning tips that allow me to make very fine lines, as evidenced by the compass arms. The dot matrix pattern is uneven, but this is outside art and not ten years of gospel on vellum so it’s probably okay. The very close dots of purple and pink are actually straight out of Lindisfarne; the grid pattern is also in pink in the gospels, but I needed to adjust for the medium. The middle is stained with a light walnut color with the wayfinder's compass burned into it (a 16th century icelandic rune charm). As per St. Eadfrith’s stylings, I colored the knotwork in block colors rather than following each line around, and I think it adds a complexity that, strangely, following each line would not reveal. Perhaps it is because it shows the evenness and perfection of the design to great effect; the design itself barely rotates around the edges, but the tangle of lines is complicated enough to be interesting and induce questions in how it was achieved.

I really enjoyed making this. Have some Lindisfarne details.

[viridian-pickle]