I love Celtic designs. I suppose I’ve grown up with them all around me, although what exactly is a Celt? And how Celtic am I? (As far as I know part of my ancestry goes back through Orkney to Scandinavia, and part goes back for centuries here in Stirling then maybe from northern France before that – my own ancestral Celtic knot!)
I think that apart from their sheer beauty, I like their intricate looping interconnected-ness.
There’s something of this kind of knot which is mandala-like and something about it which captures similar themes to the yin-yang symbol, but I feel more deeply in tune with these Celtic designs.
This one is on a gravestone in Inchmahome Priory on Inchamhome Island in the middle of the Lake of Menteith.
Which traditions of drawing touch you most deeply?
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