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How to Draw Celtic Knotwork: A Practical Handbook

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Just got this book. Looks to be avery good manual, with lots of technical detail.

However, the 191 page book has about 100 pages in the middle devoted to somewhat superfluous examples of line intersections.

I wanted to let everyone know that the software is available for purchase at the author's home page: http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/creative/celtic/index.htm

Contrary to it's title this book is in no way a practical handbook. At first glance when you read through the introduction and part one, the instructions it gives sound easy to follow and it makes it seem as though all this requires is a grid and some mindless drawing of lines. But it turns out that it is the exact opposite. There are numerous rules to remember and different combinations that aren't allowed to be near eachother and the border area is where he really loses you, the structure of the border changes the rules for the entire knot all of which must be memorized unless you want to end up with a jumble of loose ends. It would be enough to say that it sounds quite viable in theory but is completely inviable in practice. I believe the main goal of this book was to sell the computer program that was developed by the author

This book helped me create my own program for creating PostScript knotwork designs, presenting the structure of the knotwork in a simple, regular manner. END

I have had this book for about two years. It explains celtic knotwork construction in an easy to understand and enlightening manner. Two points subtracted for too much padding in the middle made up of not particularly useful graphs. WHERE'S THE SOFTWARE!! I WANT IT.

If you are interested in the accomapnying software for Andy Sloss' book, search "Proscribe." I found it there.

Sloss has very cleverly simplified the drawing of Celtic knotwork and in theory has created software to aid in using the same techniques to draw the knots. But, where is the software? How can one obtain it? Is it Windows95 friendly

This book defines an easy to follow method to quickly setup and create Celtic Knots. In short order with a quad pad, you can knock out even complex patterns.

It is an easy read with lots of examples.

The program Proscribe uses the same system to create Celtic Knots.

Andy Sloss presents simple techniques for creating original celtic knotwork desigs. WARNING -- this book may only appeal to either mechanically-minded folk or Virgos! But if you fall into either of those categories, you'll love it

This is a great book. I have been looking for the software for about a year. If you find it, let me know..