Celtic Designs

Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 7:57pm (EDT-2) [email protected] (asmurff) doth
posteth:
<snip> the music stand on her piano was damaged <snip> .What I'd like to
do is fill the area inside the stand with the Celtic weave of infinity
<snip>

I've been following this thread. You might want to ask the wife if
she wants the Celtic design, or wants it the way it was. I'm always
getting birdhday and Xmas presents because some 'knows' I'd like what
ever. And usually I don't.

If she likes the idea, and I was doing it, I'd stick with the web.
See something you like,. print it. Then go thru everything later, and
pick you just what you want. Me, I can sketch freehand, so I'd probably
just do that. But it's easy enough to copy to size using a Xerox
machine. I do that sometimes too. There's sooo very much stuff on the
web, it's actually sometimes hard to find someting I like, simply
because there's so much stuff to sort thru.

I'm in the midst of a couple of major research searches just now.
One woodworking related, the other not For the woodworking, once I get
several designs I really like, or more realistically, severl I want to
take a bit from one, a bit from another, and so on, and combine all of
them, and wind up with a design I like, but that doesn't look much like
anything I started with. One one of my designs, believe I used about 15
printed pages, and sombined bits from each. But if you want books, I'd
say start at your local library, and come local bookstores - because no
matter how appealing someone makes a specific book sound, you'll never
really know if you actually like the book or not, until you've got in in
your hands, and thumb thru it. That's why I no longer allow people to
buy books for me, unless I've told them before hand what I would like.



JOAT
What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
humiliations?
- Peter Egan

Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 7:57pm (EDT-2) [email protected] (asmurff) doth
posteth:
<snip> the music stand on her piano was damaged <snip> .What I'd like to
do is fill the area inside the stand with the Celtic weave of infinity
<snip>

Hmm, possible this posting will show up twice.

I've been following this thread. You might want to ask the wife if
she wants the Celtic design, or wants it the way it was. I'm always
getting birdhday and Xmas presents because some 'knows' I'd like what
ever. And usually I don't.

If she likes the idea, and I was doing it, I'd stick with the web.
See something you like,. print it. Then go thru everything later, and
pick you just what you want. Me, I can sketch freehand, so I'd probably
just do that. But it's easy enough to copy to size using a Xerox
machine. I do that sometimes too. There's sooo very much stuff on the
web, it's actually sometimes hard to find someting I like, simply
because there's so much stuff to sort thru.

I'm in the midst of a couple of major research searches just now.
One woodworking related, the other not For the woodworking, once I get
several designs I really like, or more realistically, severl I want to
take a bit from one, a bit from another, and so on, and combine all of
them, and wind up with a design I like, but that doesn't look much like
anything I started with. One one of my designs, believe I used about 15
printed pages, and sombined bits from each. But if you want books, I'd
say start at your local library, and come local bookstores - because no
matter how appealing someone makes a specific book sound, you'll never
really know if you actually like the book or not, until you've got in in
your hands, and thumb thru it. That's why I no longer allow people to
buy books for me, unless I've told them before hand what I would like.



JOAT
What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
humiliations?
- Peter Egan

FYI - The book referenced below is available from 15 of the 20 listed
retailers from AllBookstores at the following URL:

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/compare/1861083726

Hope this information will be helpfull to you.


On Sep 21, 6:11 am, "Banddad" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a book by Glenda Bennett, called "Celtic Woodworking Projects",
> ISBN 9781861083722. You might find it in your library or buy it from a book
> store. You could probably google the book title or look it up on e-bay.
> Hope this helps.
>
> "B A R R Y" <[email protected]> wrote in messagenews:[email protected]...
>
>
>
> > Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any Celtic designs to offer.
>
> > I'd love to see how this turns out.
>
> > Good luck!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Morris that is a very interesting looking program, I've forwarded it to my
wife she is a Celtic Knot Nut.

Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Morris Dovey wrote:
> | asmurff wrote:
> |
> || I've been snatching pics from
> || web, but was wondering if anyone here had line drawings of ones
> || they had used before. I'd be interested in any Celtic designs.
> |
> | I don't have the drawings you're looking for, but have seen a web
> | site with (free) downloadable software to _generate_ these designs.
> | The bookmark I saved didn't survive a Win/ME crash, but I remember
> | finding the site using Google.
>
> Found it! It's at http://www.abbott.demon.co.uk/knots.html.
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
>
>

asmurff wrote:

| I've been snatching pics from
| web, but was wondering if anyone here had line drawings of ones
| they had used before. I'd be interested in any Celtic designs.

I don't have the drawings you're looking for, but have seen a web site
with (free) downloadable software to _generate_ these designs. The
bookmark I saved didn't survive a Win/ME crash, but I remember finding
the site using Google.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

Morris Dovey wrote:
| asmurff wrote:
|
|| I've been snatching pics from
|| web, but was wondering if anyone here had line drawings of ones
|| they had used before. I'd be interested in any Celtic designs.
|
| I don't have the drawings you're looking for, but have seen a web
| site with (free) downloadable software to _generate_ these designs.
| The bookmark I saved didn't survive a Win/ME crash, but I remember
| finding the site using Google.

Found it! It's at http://www.abbott.demon.co.uk/knots.html.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any Celtic designs to offer.

I'd love to see how this turns out.

Good luck!

Oh believe me she'll be asked about any design be for I ever do more than
draw. She likes the sketches I've done so far, but she will have final
approval.

Yes the web weeding as I call it has produced numerous pictures and designs
which I'm saving and a few designs are taking shape in my head and sketches.

As for me picking up a book either at the store or library, that is the norm
around here, I love to read. Usually for something like this I'd try the
library first and then buy the book with what I want or need in it.

--
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 7:57pm (EDT-2) [email protected] (asmurff) doth
> posteth:
> <snip> the music stand on her piano was damaged <snip> .What I'd like to
> do is fill the area inside the stand with the Celtic weave of infinity
> <snip>
>
> I've been following this thread. You might want to ask the wife if
> she wants the Celtic design, or wants it the way it was. I'm always
> getting birdhday and Xmas presents because some 'knows' I'd like what
> ever. And usually I don't.
>
> If she likes the idea, and I was doing it, I'd stick with the web.
> See something you like,. print it. Then go thru everything later, and
> pick you just what you want. Me, I can sketch freehand, so I'd probably
> just do that. But it's easy enough to copy to size using a Xerox
> machine. I do that sometimes too. There's sooo very much stuff on the
> web, it's actually sometimes hard to find someting I like, simply
> because there's so much stuff to sort thru.
>
> I'm in the midst of a couple of major research searches just now.
> One woodworking related, the other not For the woodworking, once I get
> several designs I really like, or more realistically, severl I want to
> take a bit from one, a bit from another, and so on, and combine all of
> them, and wind up with a design I like, but that doesn't look much like
> anything I started with. One one of my designs, believe I used about 15
> printed pages, and sombined bits from each. But if you want books, I'd
> say start at your local library, and come local bookstores - because no
> matter how appealing someone makes a specific book sound, you'll never
> really know if you actually like the book or not, until you've got in in
> your hands, and thumb thru it. That's why I no longer allow people to
> buy books for me, unless I've told them before hand what I would like.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
> humiliations?
> - Peter Egan
>

"asmurff" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> When my wife and I got married a not quite a year and a half ago,
> while moving her in with me the music stand on her piano was damaged
> by the movers. My next project is to make a new one, and I don't want
> to just trace the old one, it's boring. What I'd like to do is fill
> the area inside the stand with the Celtic weave of infinity (she is of
> Irish ancestry), I've been snatching pics from web, but was wondering
> if anyone here had line drawings of ones they had used before. I'd be
> interested in any Celtic designs.
>

Depending on how you are with drawing, there is a really superlative book
on constructing Celtic knotwork designs published by Dover; it is called
'Celtic art, its methods of construction' by George Bain
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=
9780486229232&itm=1

Thanks for all the good ideas, I stumbled on a design I like late last
night, it might have been at Dover's site. Barnes & Noble has the book you
mentioned Barry and I believe I'll get it for future projects. Thanks again
all and I'll put some pictures here after it is all done.

Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
"Banddad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> There is a book by Glenda Bennett, called "Celtic Woodworking Projects",
> ISBN 9781861083722. You might find it in your library or buy it from a
> book store. You could probably google the book title or look it up on
> e-bay. Hope this helps.
>
>
> "B A R R Y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any Celtic designs to offer.
>>
>> I'd love to see how this turns out.
>>
>> Good luck!
>
>

There is a book by Glenda Bennett, called "Celtic Woodworking Projects",
ISBN 9781861083722. You might find it in your library or buy it from a book
store. You could probably google the book title or look it up on e-bay.
Hope this helps.


"B A R R Y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any Celtic designs to offer.
>
> I'd love to see how this turns out.
>
> Good luck!

Not sure if its the same book but I saw one similar to that on celtic stuff
at Woodcraft yesterday..

--
Rich Harris

"asmurff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks for all the good ideas, I stumbled on a design I like late last
> night, it might have been at Dover's site. Barnes & Noble has the book you
> mentioned Barry and I believe I'll get it for future projects. Thanks
> again all and I'll put some pictures here after it is all done.
>
> Mike
> Watch for the bounce.
> If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
> If ya see it, it didn't go off.
> Old Air Force Munitions Saying
> "Banddad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> There is a book by Glenda Bennett, called "Celtic Woodworking Projects",
>> ISBN 9781861083722. You might find it in your library or buy it from a
>> book store. You could probably google the book title or look it up on
>> e-bay. Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>> "B A R R Y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Sounds like a cool project. I don't have any Celtic designs to offer.
>>>
>>> I'd love to see how this turns out.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>
>

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:57:08 -0600, "asmurff" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I'd be interested in any Celtic designs.

Learn how to construct them yourself. It's not too hard, it fits in with
existing design shapes far better than trying to stretch clip-art to
fit, and there are any number of design books on the subject.

Most of all though, true knotwork has several rules to follow. It's
continuous, there's only ever one loop, not two. and there are no ends.
Also a few other variable rules, depending on age, place, and whether it
has "gripping beasts" or "beard-pullers" in it (it should have!).

If you know these rules beforehand, it's easy to follow them. If you
don't, then the knotwork is flawed. And one day you _will_ lern the
rules, and from then on looking at it will subtly annoy you every time
you see it. As it does when you see most commercial fake-knot designs.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:57:08 -0600, "asmurff" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>When my wife and I got married a not quite a year and a half ago, while
>moving her in with me the music stand on her piano was damaged by the
>movers. My next project is to make a new one, and I don't want to just trace
>the old one, it's boring. What I'd like to do is fill the area inside the
>stand with the Celtic weave of infinity (she is of Irish ancestry), I've
>been snatching pics from web, but was wondering if anyone here had line
>drawings of ones they had used before. I'd be interested in any Celtic
>designs.
>
>Mike
>Watch for the bounce.
>If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
>If ya see it, it didn't go off.
>Old Air Force Munitions Saying
>

Dover Publications has a lot of clip art books and coloring books
(yes, they are a source of line art) and probably some clip art CDs.

http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?follow-pro=1&vwcatalog=doverpublications&catalog=doverpublications&query=celtic

John