Celtic knot designs – ‘knot’ as hard as they look! These are the two main uses to which I put Celtic knot designs. I've developed a method that's particularly useful for creating decorative borders, and that can also be adapted to create infill for large, decorative initials. It's not 'whether you're doing it right' – it's whether it gets the result you want.
#HOW TO DRAW ROPE WITH KNOTS FREE#
So I say, once you've looked at the theories on offer, you should feel totally free to either follow them if they work for you, or develop your own. Judging by the number of experts who've published different theories about how Celtic knot designs were originally done, it seems almost certain that different techniques must have arisen in the various scriptoria among different illustrators. “How on earth,” one wonders, peering at the elaborate detail, “did they manage to do all that with just one line?” The mystery of Celtic knot designs, and interlace in general, lies in the seamless perfection of the finished item, which both baffles and delights the eye and mind with its precisely interwoven forms and exuberant colour. What is so special about Celtic knot designs? And sometime before AD700, knotwork designs were adapted to ornament the astonishingly elaborate, luminous carpet pages and decorated initial letters in Irish Christian and other manuscripts – most famously, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels (as illustrated above). By the fifth century AD, very similar Celtic knot designs were still known and used in the British Isles. The Celts' astonishing patterns survived through the Roman and Anglo-Saxon invasions of the British Isles, and through huge changes in culture. If you enjoy it and you would like to help me make more content on the site, please consider donating a coffee (or however much you want) using the button below.
#HOW TO DRAW ROPE WITH KNOTS HOW TO#
This video gives an overview of how to construct a simple, quick knotwork heart, or tulip (both forwards and backwards!)
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