Interlace Knotwork

KNOTWORK IS A THING! interlace weave patterns & variations across eons origins styles methods media function meanings-in-context + endless creativity of scribes

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Splendid initial 'A' with interlace

BnF MS Latin 17002; Vitae sanctorum, pars II; 11th century; Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Moissac; f.49v
@GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Initials at the beginning of the four Gospels

BnF MS Latin 271; Evangelia; 9th century; ff.23r, 61r, 87v, 126v @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Initial 'I' at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark and John

BnF MS Latin 274; Evangelia (Evangiles de Meaux); 9th century; (between 820-843); Tours; ff.55r, 117r @GallicaBnF

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

BRAIDING WEAVE INTERLACE rim header surrounds the baptismal font & knits history to the rite's significance as it unfolds in the liturgy perhaps offering a meditation on how far the vows can reach? Historiska museet Stockholm https://t.co/p0u7kgyOLy Wiki https://t.co/mcjCLpRZpZ

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

Late 12th century font from the Parish Church of Lyngsjö in Sweden depicting Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in 1170. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

25 April, 18 May, 10 June, 10 July: St Mark the Evangelist. Author of Gospel of Mark & founded Church of Alexandria, Egypt, one of most important episcopal sees of Early Christianity. 🎨f24v Winged lion! 🎨f183r "Now it was the third hour". @BookOfKellsTCD in @tcdlibrary

[Dr Anne E Bailey @AnneEBailey1]

Rather striking hogback grave cover, early 10th century. Displayed at Durham Cathedral.
📸2025

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

ALTAR INTERLACE verticals horizontals diagonals on columns & capitals Colegiata de San Salvador de Cantamuda Palencia c12th Romanesque context dependent interpretations water/wine mingling humanity & divinity? spirit & flesh? conjoined? many integrated as one in the Spirit? ...

[Románico en España @RomanicoEspana]

¿Qué me decís de esta mesa de altar de la Colegiata de San Salvador de Cantamuda (Palencia)?
#BuenasTardes

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

COMPLEX INTERLACING ARMENIAN KHACHKAR (cross stone) ca 1216 Geghardavank (Monastery of the Spear) Wiki image 📷Marie-Lan Nguyen on special loan from the Mission of Armenia to the United Nations CC BY 2.5 https://t.co/Axw0i9MWCU

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

QUOD IN POSSIBILE draw mindful attention to the centre of all & grow forward! Breviarium cum picturis et litteris initialibus splendide exornatis et pictis BSB Clm 8271 p 35 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München Bavarian State Library Munich https://t.co/YjHOl04ENv CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

OMNIS SAPIENTIA a Domino Deo est/All wisdom comes from the Lord God: strong knots, deep colors, gold hold & join upper/lower O together; Sirach aka Wisdom/ Ecclesiasticus 1:1 - Dijon Abbaye Saint-Bénigne Bible ca 1125-1150 Dijon BM Ms 0002 f308v [621/1018] https://t.co/2zImXm8TTQ

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

GOLD KNOTWORK BORDERS, central medallion frames follow designs of Late Antique & Byzantine mosaic tangential cable loop interlace - ‘Miniature’ Single-volume Qur’an, The Khalili Collections / Islamic Art Ms QUR 430 Middle East second half 10th century AD https://t.co/wrvWAlBaLK

[The Khalili Collections @KhaliliOnline]

For #WorldBookDay we’re celebrating the history of the written word with this ‘Miniature’ Single-volume Qur’an from our Islamic Arts Collection.

Created in the second half of the 10th-c in the Middle East, this manuscript is written in miniature Kufic script, with 30 lines copied on each page

[Pamela Jones @Jones8Pamela]

Large free-standing cross with Latin and Norman French inscriptions C11/12th Now fixed against the interior of the west tower of St David's church Llanarthne Carms "Mercy and grace on the soul of Moredic Elmon made this cross" #SundayStonework #StandingStoneSunday

[🌷aiko Madame Soleil d'Or @ewokaku]

今日、私は、タラの丘にて、三位一体の至高の力を呼び求めて立ち上がる。

The Lorica of Saint Patrick
先日書いた模写です。

the Liber Hymnorum in the library at Trinity College, Dublin MS 1441

[🌷aiko Madame Soleil d'Or @ewokaku]

久しぶりにブログ書きました💦

イースター

https://t.co/scV4Na7I9z

[W.D. Jordan Library @jordan_library]

A close look at a page from William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1892), produced in the spirit of the Kelmscott Press tradition, where text and image are inseparable works of art. #WilliamMorris #SpecialCollections

[Hammer and Vajra @HammerandVajra]

"Wayland the Smith, Winged Man, inspired by finding from Uppåkra, Sweden."
Source: https://t.co/myd1xmIC9a

[Sagnamaðr Stark @Sagnamadr]

A Viking Age brooch from Kaupang, Norway, with Oseberg-style decoration. The animal design is very reminiscent of the tent poles found in the Oseberg Ship. 9th Century.

[Interlace Knotwork @InterlaceKnots]

INTERLACING BLIND ARCADE baptismal font

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖 @HistoryMalc]

Solid, sturdy and simple, with a pleasant decorative arcade. A probably Norman font at St Nicholas in the tiny village of Fyfield on the way to Marlborough from Avebury.
#FontsonFriday

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Incipit Vita Sancti Silvestri Papae Urbis Romae

BnF MS Latin 5304; Vitae et Passiones: Division ff: 1-60. Vitae sanctorum, pars I; 11th century (1st quarter); Saint-Pierre de Moissac; f.18v @GallicaBnF