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KNOTWORK IS A THING! sole focus: interlace under-over weave patterns across eons, origins, styles, methods, media, function, context, & meaning-making.. endless creativity, sometimes theology cosmology text commentary connection intention - Brian Dench
INTERLACE INITIAL Quattuor Evangelia - Brown-red braided knotwork initial, Northeastern France ca 850-875 Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg UER MS 10[2 f2r Public domain 1.0 nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...
March 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
HIBERNO-SAXON INTERLACE (Irish/post-Roman Great Britain) in Salzburg Austria ca 785-790 Gospel Book of St. Peter Cathedral Chapter Library; Cutbercht Evangeliar - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek [Austrian National Library] ÖNB Cod. 1224 view 155 von 423 digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/vi...
March 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
INTERLACING TANGENTIAL LOOPS inlaid cosmatesque floor pavement at Santa Maria in Ara Coeli/Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar in Heaven, Rome, Bufalini Chapel Wikimedia image by Peter1936F CC BY-SA 4.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Santa_M...
March 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
IN PRINCIPIO JOYFUL RIOT of chaos & order psychological relevance of Gen 1/Jn 1 "human beings partake in the image of God insofar as they are capable of speaking forth good [habitable] order from chaos” JPeterson Evangiles de l'abbaye de Senones 1100 BnF Lat 9392 f124r gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 PM
FRAGMENT: Lindisfarne ca 650 Insular knotwork in continuous weave plait, “breaks” turn-back varieties & triquetra; Durham Priory Library Project collaboration Durham University & Durham Cathedral Ms A.II.10 f3v CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?m... / Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_...
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 AM
OPPORTUNUM videtur = it seems appropriate; no speed reading past this Opportunity; arresting interlace is complex busy clearly organized balanced & holds viewer attention more than a moment. Homiliary 3rd Qtr 9th c St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek Cod Sang 433 p686 PD e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0433/...
November 25, 2024 at 3:45 AM
PILLARS OF KNOTWORK book cover signals complex interactions & developments support the building of languages, communities, cultures.. Oxford Academic Mullen, Alex & George Woudhuysen (eds) Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces doi.org/10.1093/oso/... …/2
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 AM
MOVING FORWARD & looking back – escaping the entanglements entails carrying new ones onboard… Next! Basel Universitätsbibliothek MS B V 16 f16r Epiphanius Latinus (?), Interpretatio evangeliorum (chap. 18-62) c9th Carthusian Monastery of Basel Upper Rhine www.e-codices.ch/en/ubb/B-V-0...
November 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM