How to Draw Celtic Key Patterns


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For over 3,000 years, the blend of Byzantine and early British design known as "Celtic" has fascinated artists. Join them--all you need is a pen and graph paper! Master these simple patterns, then invent your own variations: create borders, finish the edges around a repeating design, and incorporate spirals into geometric patterns. "With the recent resurgence in Celtic art, music, and dance, a book like this could be useful as a sourcebook for...artists, designers, and craftspeople."-- "Library Journal . 192 pages, 200 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 1/2.




Celtic Art


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This unique volume clearly demonstrates simple geometric techniques for making intricate knots, interlacements, spirals, Kellstype initials, human and animal figures in distinctive Celtic style. Features over 500 illustrations.




159 Celtic Designs


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Over 150 motifs reflecting the eye-catching intricacies of Celtic design, ideal for use in graphics layouts, needlework designs and other art and craft projects. Often incorporating sinuous interlacements of animal, floral and abstract motifs, the designs have been clearly and boldly drawn to provide the clearest possible image for reproduction. The collection includes a variety of interesting shapes and sizes.




A Treasury of Celtic Design


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Celtic Key Patterns


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Here's the complete and informative guide to the history and reconstruction of the work of the ancient scribes. Included are color plates of the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels that show how intricate and beautiful Celtic design was thousands of years ago.




Celtic Needlepoint


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Celtic Charted Designs


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Over 300 lovely designs from Book of Kells, Tara Brooch, and other authentic Celtic sources: spiral work, knot work, biomorphic patterns, more.




Celtic Designs and Motifs


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Contains 103 copyright-free Celtic designs and motifs for graphic artists.




Celtic Key Patterns


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One of the Celts four principal forms of ornament, key patterns take the form of angular paths which seperate and rejoin systematically. This text includes examples of this form of Celtic design.




The Celtic Design Book


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A manual that provides a comprehensive source of instruction for artists, designers and craftspeople of various kinds.




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