159 Celtic Designs

Author: Amy L. Lusebrink
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486276880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Over 150 motifs reflecting the eye-catching intricacies of Celtic design, ideal for use in graphics layouts, needlework designs and other art and craft projects. Often incorporating sinuous interlacements of animal, floral and abstract motifs, the designs have been clearly and boldly drawn to provide the clearest possible image for reproduction. The collection includes a variety of interesting shapes and sizes.

Celtic Designs and Motifs

Author: Courtney Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486267180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Contains 103 copyright-free Celtic designs and motifs for graphic artists.

A Handbook of Celtic Ornament

Author: John G. Merne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486419602
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Even the most elaborate Celtic pattern boils down to a few basic motifs (including spirals, swastikas, circles, "s" curves, knots, tau crosses, sun signs, etc.). This lavishly illustrated handbook of over 600 designs offers a key to the intricacies of Celtic decoration, showing how the judicious use of these simple symbols, motifs, or ideographs can be used to develop newer and more ambitious patterns to meet the requirements of modern decorative art. Over 600 black-and-white illus.

Celtic Gods and Heroes

Author: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Noted French scholar and linguist discusses gods of the continental Celts, beginnings of mythology in Ireland, Irish mother-goddesses and chieftain-gods, and heroes.

Celtic Myth and Legend

Author: Charles Squire
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
Splendid compilation of tales ranges from Arthurian myth to less-familiar adventures, such as Finn and his Fenians, plus many other heroic figures from the Gaelic pantheon.

Viking Designs

Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486404692
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
This compilation features more than 175 dynamic, royalty-free motifs in a wide range of styles. Derived from the metalwork, woodwork, textiles, carvings, and ceramics of the Viking homelands of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, they include sinuously intertwined patterns, mythological animals, dragon-slaying heroes on horseback, and many other striking images.

Celtic and Norse Designs CD-ROM and Book

Author: Amy L. Lusebrink
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486997928
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Rescued from ancient sources, these exceptionally bold motifs include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into intricate networks of spirals and interlacings. 221 illustrations, 48 of them in color, meticulously adapted from artwork that once graced ancient rune stones, furniture, sword hilts, and other artifacts.

Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times

Author: J. Romilly Allen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486416083
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Classic of scholarly research explores origins of Celtic art in Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Illustrated with 44 plates of photographs and line drawings of artifacts from a variety of sites, this study traces Celtic art in the Bronze and early Iron Ages, as well as Celtic art of the Christian period.

The Decorated Letter

Author: Jonathan James Graham Alexander
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
"This book is an anthology of decorated letters to be found in European manuscripts from the fourth to the fifteenth century" -- Introduction.

Druids and Druidism

Author: T. D. Kendrick
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Well-documented summary of Druidic culture offers a detailed account of the racial history, prehistory, and social atmosphere of this early Gallic and British civilization. The amply illustrated text considers many theories of the origin of Druidism, its temples and religious practices, and its early mention by Greek and Roman writers.