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Not much to read as this is an art book but this is a nice collection of Celtic and Norse designs.
4 out of 5 stars.
4 out of 5 stars.
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Celtic and Old Norse Designs
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Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will find them in this versatile treasury brimming with 125 royalty-free designs. Taken from authentic Celtic and Old Norse sources, they include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings.
Meticulously adapted from artwork that graced ancient rune stones and religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, bronze mirrors, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts, the illustrations depict a crucifix; decorative creatures that adorned the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels; interwoven designs from stone crosses of Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall; and many other designs and motifs.
Convenient and inexpensive, this collection offers inspiration and a wealth of immediately usable dramatic ornamentation rich in character and distinctive in content.
Meticulously adapted from artwork that graced ancient rune stones and religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, bronze mirrors, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts, the illustrations depict a crucifix; decorative creatures that adorned the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels; interwoven designs from stone crosses of Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall; and many other designs and motifs.
Convenient and inexpensive, this collection offers inspiration and a wealth of immediately usable dramatic ornamentation rich in character and distinctive in content.
48 pages, Paperback
First published September 8,2000
This edition
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48 pages, Paperback
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September 8, 2000 by Dover Publications
- ISBN
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9780486412290
- ASIN
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0486412296
- Language
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English
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Sorry guys, not a novel, a picture book with line drawings of patterns taken from manuscripts , stone crosses, everyday objects like mirrors, brooches, pendants., torcs (neck collars), bowls, spoons, sword hilts, wooden bedposts and weather vanes found in Ireland, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Scotland, Wales, Cumbria, Northumberland, Sutton-Hoo, Sweeden, Denmark and Norway. Specific destinations include Monasterboice, Cross of Cong, St Machan's Shrine, Shrine of Lachtin's Arm and Bell Shrine of St. Patrick, Ireland; Golden Grove and Llantwit Major, Wales; Osberg, Norway, Gosforth Cross at St. Mary's Church, Cumbria and Gotland, Sweeden. The book includes "Six major periods of Old Norse decoration: the Broa/Oseberg, Borre, Jellinge, Mammen, Ringerike and Urnes , styles" but unfortunately doesn't explain them. That's left to good ol' google.
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More of an idea for design than one for reading but very helpful
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Most of these can be found in the far superior Celtic Art by George Bain.
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Series: Reading my mother’s favourite books of all time and judging her them.
i wish there was even a slither of explanation or examples in this book, or even some kind of order/contents or appropriate grouping. not sure what anyone would do with anything in this book unless they only wanted the symbols for aesthetic reasons with no real interest in their actual history and intentions
i wish there was even a slither of explanation or examples in this book, or even some kind of order/contents or appropriate grouping. not sure what anyone would do with anything in this book unless they only wanted the symbols for aesthetic reasons with no real interest in their actual history and intentions
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