Before you go congratulating me on my skill with Celtic knots, please know that I did not draw this knot on my own, I always get considerable help from various sources. For those artist out there who actually do design and create their own original Celtic knots and patterns, kudos to you, you are amazing. My brain doesn’t work that way. For the rest of us, here are some resources and the methods you can use to create knots.

The above piece was created using this book:
“Celtic Knotwork Borders in Repeating Sections” by Bradley W. Schenck

http://shop.webomator.com/cgi-bin/c.....book.111215757

The knots can be pieced together in various ways and once having bought the book, you have free use of the knots you create from it in your projects, you just can’t sell the individual sections yourself. All and all I found this a fantastic resource and it was worth the effort of scanning the entire thing in, all 100 pages of it.

Still even with this significant help, laying out this knot in photoshop, preparing the linework and then coloring it took a lot of time and work and I’m proud of the result.

If you are curious about the knots in my other pieces I’ll share this other secret. I use a Celtic Knot Font, that can be downloaded for a fee from here:
http://www.clanbadge.com/knots.htm

Any other knots I use in my art come from public domain sources like medieval illuminated manuscripts.