How Do You Draw A Celtic Knot?
• Use graph paper and draw a square even on both sides. Draw dots at alternate vertices as shown in the picture. This will help show you where the splittings will go. • Draw the splittings. Splittings are lines that are two units long, centered over a dot. These separate lines and help add the design to the knot. You can not draw on these lines or through them. • Draw diagonal lines between any two dots which do not have splittings on them. It is like doing “connect the dots” but the lines must be diagonally adjacent and cannot cross the splittings. Draw them so they are not touching the dots! • Add the curves. The curves will extend outwards from a dot and reach out over a unit and up it one half to end parallel to the adjacent splitting. It helps if you think of the splittings as mirrors and the lines as rays of light. The “mirrors” should make the “light rays” bend away. • Add the corners. They are out a half a unit and down half a unit. Use only at the corners of splittings. • The
