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Here is a still of the latest masking inksperimentation. The one on the left uses the Diamine Nostalgia and Brrr! inks from the 2025 #Inkvent calendar. The one on the right uses Jacques Herbin Violet Impérial and the Diamine Bubbly.

#CelticArt #CelticKnot #Knotwork #Ink

Two small squares of pearlescent paper with triangular Celtic knots on them. There is a 7-pointed star in the center of each knot. The closest/leftmost is a red-brown knot with a raspberry shimmer where the light hits it just right, and a pale cold blue star. The more distant/rightmost one is purple with a gold star.

Another masking inksperiment! This one uses the Diamine Nostalgia and Brrr! inks from the 2025 #Inkvent calendar.

#CelticArt #CelticKnot #Knotwork #Ink

My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)

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#photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

A photograph of a sword mat tied with a "buttonholed" ring at the end, next to a reference card from the International Guild of Knot Tyers.

A photograph of a sword mat being tied off of a "buttonholed" ring, on an improvised "loom". One of the two chopsticks that served as the "swords" for the mat-making is visible holding the warp lines open near the bottom of the image.

🪢 Nouvel entrelacs. En ce solstice je découvre les dessins entrelacés, entre branches et phylactères, de @alexfreikhadavali
https://www.entrelacs.art/solstice-234-alex-frei-khadavali/

#InterlaceArt #knotwork #knots

🪢 Nouveaux entrelacs à découvrir : Reliure entrelacée d’ivoire – Sacramentaire de Béranger (Italie, 10e s.)
https://www.entrelacs.art/reliure-entrelacs-ivoire-sacramentaire-de-beranger-italie-10e/
#interlaceArt #entrelacs #knotwork #celticknotwork

🪢 Nouveaux entrelacs à découvrir : Sacramentary of Berengar’s ivory knotworks binding (Italy, 10th)
https://www.interlaces.art/sacramentary-berengar-ivory-knotworks-cover-italy-10th/
#interlaceArt #entrelacs #knotwork #celticknotwork

🪢 Nouveaux entrelacs à découvrir : A random old door knotwork decor
https://www.interlaces.art/random-old-door-knotwork-decor/
#interlaceArt #entrelacs #knotwork #celticknotwork

🪢 Nouveaux entrelacs à découvrir : Décor en entrelacs d’une vieille porte
https://www.entrelacs.art/decor-entrelacs-vieille-porte/
#interlaceArt #entrelacs #knotwork #celticknotwork

Well, me and the family moved back to MN. A lot going on. Finished a summer job at the Science Museum of MN, now working on our house. Took another class to continue honing my skills - butternut clock on the right. Just playing with the basswood on the left.

Beautiful bag art by @Himmapaan perfect for hauling chisels & gouges.

#carving #woodcarving #acanthus #knotwork

Left - basswood rectangle carved with a Norse zoomorphic beast head, and knotwork. Right - an acanthus style clock carved in butternut.

A small knot practice area and instructional card at Museum Spakenburg. Because I know quite a few knots, this is always an interesting view into a language I don't speak. Since there was a length of rope that was otherwise unoccupied I left them a small Turk's head. In English, clockwise from top, these would be a bowline, a fisherman's knot, a figure eight stopper, a square knot (aka a reef knot), and a sheet bend.

#photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

A photograph of an instructional knot card in Dutch, sitting on top of a knot-tying practice station made of wood.

A small lanyard for to hold my badge at this weekend's International Guild of Knot Tyers-North America annual meeting at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Relatively simple as these things go, just something I could complete in an evening.

#photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

A photograph of a 'fancywork' lanyard tied in off-white cord with decorative Turks Head knots applied in a blue cord. A badge holder with an International Guild of Knot Tyers card is attached.

The Fourth Knot (ca. before 1521) by Albrecht Dürer, Academy of Leonardo da Vinci.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/06905d11-925b-43cd-a068-b34ddf6c3326

#loops #labyrinths #woodcuts #knotwork #ornament #design #pattern #art #publicdomain

"Fáilte"
Teableau for 08/26/25

It means "Welcome." It's for a friend's grandbaby who is right now in the process of making his entry into the world. Safe journey, little one.

#Tea #Birth #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #VintageChina #Brooch #Celtic #Knotwork #Serpents #Dragons #Art #Drawing #Handmade #StashTeas

Tea tableau in rich purple, pink, teal, and gold, with a theme of Celtic dragons, swirls, and knotwork in an art card, a brooch, and tea cozy. There's a bright green demitasse set and a golden spoon with a rainbow lollipop as a handle. The tea is Peach black tea from Stash. It all rests upon a mat of pale green with rows of pink rosebuds.

Over 30 years ago, I found this wooden plate at a second hand store and drew this on it with pencil crayons and marker. I decided to bring it out to try it as a table top for a an upcycle to a defunct stool- it wasn’t quite right but I left it.
Two days ago I didn’t move it out of the rain.
Sigh- it’s now peeling.
PSA- if leaving stuff outside- and you don’t want it to transition to its next life , preserve it, seal it…
#Celtic #knotwork, #rustic #art

A wooden plate with a quartered design pattern with Celtic knots and triskeles in coloured pencil. A striped mat is seen under it

Fìgheadh

Pronounced “fee-yugh’, the name is a Scottish Gaelic noun meaning ‘weaving’.

This is an OpenType version, because Adobe don’t support Type1 any more. If you have the old TrueType version, it should still work. This version contains a couple of bugfixes. As I’m working on a new version, uppercase ASD and FGH are a preview of that.

What’s in the archive?

This archive contains the OTF version of the font, which can be used on Classic MacOS, MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It includes the following files:

• About Figheadh OTF.pdf – this file.

• Figheadh-Regular.otf – the font file In MacOS X, double click on these to see a preview. Click on the “Install Font” button to install. For earlier versions of Mac OS, these files should go in the ‘Fonts’ folder in the System Folder.

Bugs and other inconvenient features.

I am in Scotland. This typeface was set up using a British keyboard. Shift-3 gives me £. On US keyboards, you have to type option-3 to get this character, although I’ve been informed that shift-3 still gives the correct character. There are probably other differences—use the table to check.

Please let me know if you get this, or any similar, problem.

The display bug which caused an unwanted line to appear in the white-on-black characters has now been fixed. Honest.

License and Notes

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Note that the license includes the provision “Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder”. You already have my permission to use this font for commercial purposes, such as in a magazine or advertising, without attribution, and do not need to ask (though a copy of whatever you used it for would be nice). If you wish to redistribute this font commercially, including on a website with paid advertising, you must still get my permission to do so and “you must make clear to others the license terms of this work”.

Download Fìgheadh.

#celtic #Font #Insular #knotwork

Three short rows showing the knotwork created by the font.

Been itching to draw more knotwork lately, so here's a "Tranity Knot" for Pride! ⚧️🪢🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (I'm hoping to have this available on merch later, after we're settled in from our move, and will have an alternate version with some critters as well.) 😊

#Pride #TransPride #knotwork #CelticKnotwork #TrinityKnot #TransFlag #egg

Digital art done in Medibang of the Trans symbol intersecting with the Trinity knot, both done in Celtic knotwork, and overlaid on the trans flag in an egg shape, with a black background behind all that. There's also text under the symbol that reads "Survive & Thrive" in an uncial font.

I have been trying to get the colors right for the green variant of my Endless Celtic Knotwork Panel fabric print. I think this is it!

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot #Knotwork #Textiles #Fabric #SurfaceDesign

A piece of fabric adorned with a Celtic key / maze pattern that looks kind of like spirals but square in green, slate, and pale yellow lying flat with a marbled lavender and white 20-sided die with metallic gold numbers.

I made a walnut frame for one of my Celtic knotwork frog prints! This frame fits 7cm square prints (the format Open Press Project uses for their exhibitions).

#CelticArt #Knotwork #CelticDesign #LaserCut #LaserCutter #Printmaking #Woodworking

Small Celtic knotwork frog printed in green on a copper square, with a white mat in a walnut frame.

I finally got around to making a Celtic knotwork / interlacing fabric design to go with my Celtic key pattern and spiral designs! Seen here with one of my 42mm d20 chonks.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot #Knotwork #Interlacing #Textile #FabricDesign

Fabric with an endless pattern of intricate Celtic knots in shades of blue with yellow stars on a darker blue field lying flat with a bright orange-red and bronze 20-sided die with black numbers.

I finally got a chance to play with my new Open Press Postcard Printing Press! I cut a plate with this new knotwork frog I designed, and got some pretty good results after a little fiddling. After starting on this, I noticed that frogs seem to be bubbling up out of the collective unconscious a lot right now. I wanted to join the Open Press print exchange, but ran out of time to get prints to them. Maybe next year!

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot #Knotwork #Frog #Frogs #OpenPressProject

#Knotwork

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