Celtic
Art & Craft Designs from the Culture of the Kells
Design Books Paperback - Vol. 36/1
96 pages - Paperback
Published 1996 - 1st edition
Booksize 24 x 32 cm - 9.5" x 12.6"
80 plates in b/w with 120 motifs and ideas.

ISBN 88-7070-121-2

Price € 38,00

Mythical patterns, designs and motifs. Celtic arts and crafts, originally developed in Ireland between the 6th and 7th century. Music and poetry, song and dance became signatures of this culture and formed a splendidly serpentine form of graphic handling. Ornamental knots, figurative and geometrical borders and stripes, frames of all kinds, animal motifs, faces and figures, letterings and decorative initials, circles, symbols, signs, spots and all-overs. Basic text in English.