"A Method of Drawing Celtic Knotwork - Weaves"
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Author: Sidney_Eileen, Contributing Editor
| At this point, the meerkats are technically a complete design, and I could have stopped here. However, I wanted to add another chord element weaving through the two-chord design.
I considered extending the meerkat’s tail’s and making them the knot design, but I wanted the final design for this tutorial to be something less difficult than that. Weaving the two tails would have created two open-ended chords, which can require a great deal of modification in order for the final knot to have integrity. Also, I would need to worry that I did not create any extraneous chords which did not belong to either tail. By creating the additional weave out of a seperate, continuous chord element, I could guarantee its integrity, and remove all worry about how many seperate chord elements I created. |
 | I started out with two chords weaving around each other through one of the open corridors left by the two-chord design. |
 | I then took parts of the weave, broke them and drew them across the two-chord design.
As before, I tried to keep the chords even and smooth. I continued in this fashion, breaking the simple weave and sending the lines over the two-chord design, but the further I got the more of the original simplicity I lost and the more muddled the overall appearance became. To put it bluntly, I didn’t like how the design was turning out. |  |
 | So, I went to the left side of the design and tried again. After the mess of the first attempt, I decided to keep the crossings to a minimum and retain the simpler motif of two chords weaving over one another.
I decided I liked the new design better, erased the first design and completed the weave over the entire piece using the section shown here as my style guide. As with the two-chord element, I mirrored the design on the left and right sides of the circle. |
| This is the final design sketch. I tried to keep the simple weave of two lines, and in the corners created by the other elements, I placed triscaleons if possible.
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