Celtic folk art

some facts about the 3 hares symbol

Irish folk art (hex plate)

Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire ... Green Man tile | by bazzadaramblerimages

Mrs. Eldad Miller (1805–1874) and others Cross River, New York 1861 Cotton and silk with wool embroidery 90 x 75 in. American Folk Art Museum

by Geoffrey Stanton With St. Patrick's day right around the corner, everyone's feeling a little Irish. It's probably safe to assume that everyone...

I made this piece of knotwork way back when I was 19. It loosely depicts the Wild Hunt, a common subject across Celtic, Norse and Saxon myth. I designed the whole thing from scratch, taking some motifs from Celtic art sourcebooks and hand drawing and inking the whole thing in several passes on stretched heavy paper. It hasn’t seen the light of day for years, as it’s a large illustration, I haven’t been able to work in this way for many years and the cheap clip frame is beyond knackered…

A tattoo design of a Heron and a Salmon, that I fell in love with during it's creation. The Heron and Salmon

A visit to the KV Quilt Guild's annual show yesterday in Quispamsis was inspiring. SO many beautiful quilts, so much work represented in one room!! And we were so very excited and proud to see ribbons hanging on six different quilts from Fredericton, 4 of them by one FQG member! My good friend Sandi Mac cleaned up!! Way to go Sandi girl! Shown here are Sandi's four quilts. The first one is Celtic Sampler which won Best Hand Applique. Wow is all I can say! Look at the perfection of those…

Like many people, I have always held a deep reverence for the seasons. Not just the seasons themselves, but the way in which they bleed into one another, how light and dark ebbs and flows during one full turn around the sun. As a child during autumn, I would be filled with near-euphoric delight as t