Things you didn't know (or care) about me

[tahnan]

For a while starting last fall, I rather suddenly became fascinated by knotwork designs—the Celtic sort, as opposed to macramé or other actual ropework. I've let it lie fallow for a while, though it's a good way to doodle when the need arises (I don't doodle as much in class as I used to, now that I'm, you know, leading it rather than sitting through it).

At any rate, a very small sample of some designs, nothing especially original and of course you can see the lines from the graph paper, because I still need graph paper:



All of which are at my Flickr photostream, along with a few new pictures of the cats.

Comments

[ramurphy.livejournal.com]

There's a market for Celtic knot designs. You might consider looking into it.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

I've done a little bit of this... enough to know that you're doing some hard stuff, and rather well at that. Thanks for sharing, they're beautiful!

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

You could also design highway offramps.

[jydog1.livejournal.com]

is that really what my intestines look like?

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Only after you down a Guinness.

[uncanny-npl.livejournal.com]

So cool! Wish I could doodle like that (instead of, say, just writing stuff like "I love you, Liam" and "Nancy Coughlin Neeson" in a flowery hand all over the page).

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Conlanger Sylvia Sotomayor actually has created a script based on this kind of knot: http://www.terjemar.net/lajathin.php

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

It's...interesting, though I have to take Sotomayor's word for it that it's readable. That is, distinguishing one letter from another, and even more importantly the break between letters, isn't something I'm sure I could do without extended staring, which isn't something I'd want in an alphabet, even perhaps a ceremonial alphabet. But on the other hand, I haven't practiced.