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Celtic knot flash sheet
Geometric · Black and grey · Flash
A grid of around two dozen Celtic knot designs drawn in white on a black background, including crosses, squares, circles, triquetra and star shapes. The interlaced linework is uniform and bold, with over and under crossings shown clearly in each motif. A banner reading Celtic Knots sits in the lower middle of the sheet.
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Nan kept her pattern book in the net loft, wedged between tar tins and a broken winch handle, and she would not let me take it down the quay. "Ink's for the sheet, not the sea," she said, so I learned the knots on the loft floor with a stub of chalk, copying them out by lamplight while the boats knocked against the steps below.
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The first ones were easy. A square with a cross in its middle, a circle with four loops turning like the spokes of a wheel. Nan showed me how each strand goes over one and under the next, over and under, until the whole thing holds itself up without a single knot tied at the end. "There's no start to it," she said, tapping the page. "Put your finger on any line and follow it, and you'll come back where you began, every time."
I tried for a week. My squares came out lopsided and the three-cornered ones she called the trinity kept opening at the join. Then on the Tuesday the gale tore the mooring off the Mary Ann and we spent the night on the slipway hauling her in. Afterwards Nan found me at the sink, my hands still raw from the rope. She took the book from under her arm, turned to the six-pointed star, and traced it with her thumb without lifting it once.
"Done," she said. I looked, and it was. I had never once seen where it ended.
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