The Complete Book of Celtic Designs

by Judy Balchin, Courtney Davis, Elaine Hamer

A fantastic source for anyone seeking inspiration for Celtic projects or ideas, this reference features clearly drawn, intricate designs including flowing knotwork images, stylized frames and borders, decorative motifs, beautifully woven crosses, and much more. A colorful gallery of finished pieces is included to show how the designs, which can be reproduced to any scale, can be applied to finished pieces of work.

Genres: Crafts

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

Reviews

[Lisa Ulibarri · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your love Celtic art you will enjoy this one for sure! Lots of groovy ideas and examples.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Calling it "The Complete Book" of Celtic Designs is really overselling it. It's a great collection of reference images, in nice clean lines that look like vectors, and a solid reference for artists. But it sources very few of the images, and has no information on the history behind them, or how to draw the knots naturally instead of just tracing them.

Strongly prefer Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction for people who actually want to learn to *make* original Celtic art rather than just to copy it.

[Deirdre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for coloring book ideas and projects.