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**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Apr 5

Apr 5

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

Installed view of the Celtic key pattern tack pin.

Close up of a square Celtic key pattern tack pin attached to a red-orange half-zip pull-over.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #KeyPattern

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Apr 5

Apr 5

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

A quick tack pin made with one of the new Celtic key pattern washi tapes.

A small square (25mm and about 3mm thick) is carefully wrapped in a bright printed Celtic key or maze pattern in purple, red, and metallic gold. It sits on one edge next to a roll of washi tape with the same pattern against a background of off-white fibrous handmade paper.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #KeyPattern

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Apr 2

Apr 2

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

I have been trying to get the colors right for the green variant of my Endless Celtic Knotwork Panel fabric print. I think this is it!

A piece of fabric adorned with a Celtic key / maze pattern that looks kind of like spirals but square in green, slate, and pale yellow lying flat with a marbled lavender and white 20-sided die with metallic gold numbers.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Mar 22

Mar 22

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

I made a walnut frame for one of my Celtic knotwork frog prints! This frame fits 7cm square prints (the format Open Press Project uses for their exhibitions).

Small Celtic knotwork frog printed in green on a copper square, with a white mat in a walnut frame.

#CelticArt #Knotwork #CelticDesign

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Mar 15

Mar 15

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

And the Royal Squared Spirals variant!

A piece of fabric adorned with a Celtic key / maze pattern that looks kind of like spirals but square in blues, red, and gold lying flat with a marbled blue 20-sided die with metallic copper numbers.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #KeyPattern

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Mar 15

Mar 15

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

The other Celtic design fabrics in my collection so far.

Four pieces of fabric arranged like shingles: a field of spirals in shades of blue, a Celtic key / maze pattern in an almost-black on blue, the same key / maze pattern on a warm brown, a different key /maze pattern (like squared spirals) in dark on a minty green. A bamboo body pen sits at an angle across the stack (for scale).

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #KeyPattern

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Mar 15

Mar 15

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

I finally got around to making a Celtic knotwork / interlacing fabric design to go with my Celtic key pattern and spiral designs! Seen here with one of my 42mm d20 chonks.

Fabric with an endless pattern of intricate Celtic knots in shades of blue with yellow stars on a darker blue field lying flat with a bright orange-red and bronze 20-sided die with black numbers.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Feb 23

Feb 23

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

I finally got a chance to play with my new Open Press Postcard Printing Press! I cut a plate with this new knotwork frog I designed, and got some pretty good results after a little fiddling. After starting on this, I noticed that frogs seem to be bubbling up out of the collective unconscious a lot right now. I wanted to join the Open Press print exchange, but ran out of time to get prints to them. Maybe next year!

Fingers hold up a small (7cm square) print of a knotwork frog in green on a copper background on toothy white paper.

#CelticArt #CelticDesign #CelticKnot

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Feb 4

Feb 4

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

Here is a closer view of the third of the new Celtic Art washi tape designs, an extra-wide (45mm) key pattern I refer to as “squared spirals.”

A roll of wide wash tape (45mm) stands on its end with the tape unspooling to the left to show the design, a Celtic key/maze pattern on a deep purple background is outlined in gold with red and pale blue accents.

#WashiTape #CelticArt #CelticDesign

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Feb 2

Feb 2

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

A closer look at the Celtic spirals washi tape.

A roll of 20mm wide washi tape with a stream of spirals with alternating chirality in shades of blue with gold outlines and smaller gold spirals along the edges, partly unrolled to show the design.

#WashiTape #CelticArt #CelticDesign

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Feb 1

Feb 1

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

Here is a close-up of the Celtic knotwork washi tape.

A roll of 25mm-wide washi tape with a traditional Celtic knot design in shades of purple with a green accent and metallic gold lines, partly unrolled to show the design.

#WashiTape #CelticArt #CelticDesign

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Dec 31, 2024

Dec 31, 2024

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

After making hardwood gift boxes for the 20-sided dice I made to give as holiday gifts, I decided they needed an additional wrapping to protect them, and to create a reveal for the wooden boxes.

A small, squat, square, deep violet twist-top box with a Celtic knot engraved in a pale brown on each side.

A small, squat, square, deep violet twist-top box with a Celtic knot engraved in a pale brown on each side (top-down view).

A small, squat, square, deep violet twist-top box with a Celtic knot engraved in a pale brown on each side (slightly higher angle).

#PaperArt #PaperFolding #CelticArt

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Dec 29, 2024

Dec 29, 2024

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

Of course, since I was making the dice as gifts, I also needed to design and fabricate some fancy hardwood gift boxes. I made some hexagonal boxes on the desktop CNC, and produced silver knotwork medallions for the lids with metal clay.

Padauk hardwood hexagonal box with a silver Celtic knotwork medallion in the lid, open with a blue and copper 42mm Jesmonite 20-sided die inside. An ornate spiraled walnut stand and a purple box with the same knotwork motif are visible in the background.

#Maker #CNC #LaserCut

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Dec 22, 2024

Dec 22, 2024

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

When "I should wrap this" turns into "let's design and fabricate a custom box!"

Purple box with a butterfly-style closure with spirals on the flaps.

#PaperArt #CelticArt #CelticDesign

**Andrew Crawford** @evermore@mastodon.cloud · Dec 15, 2024 *

Dec 15, 2024 *

Andrew Crawford @evermore@mastodon.cloud

Welcome to the Enchanted Forest!

This holiday card is my take on a popular origamic architecture/kirigami concept. These are laser scored and cut, then hand folded from the Ice Gold stock I have been using.

A pop up card made from cutting and folding a single sheet of stock depicts a stag standing framed by the convergence of rows of trees receding into the distance. The branches overhead form whirls and spirals. The background is a green textured paper (momigami) with the white card backlit against it.

#PopUp #PopUpCard #PaperFolding

**Helen McLaughlin Art** @helenmclaughlinart@mastodon.art · Dec 7, 2024 *

Dec 7, 2024 *

Helen McLaughlin Art @helenmclaughlinart@mastodon.art

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7: Celtic knotwork carved into an ancient gravestone. Several of these were on display in a little museum area of a church we visited on the Isle of Man in 2017. Hubby had gifted me a macro lense add-on for my camera, and I was enjoying making use of it for picking out details like this.