Aidan Meehan is an Irish artist and author of 18 books on
Celtic art and design.
including the eight-volume Celtic Design series and Celtic Alphabets, Celtic Borders, The Book of Kells Painting Book, The Lindisfarne Painting Book and Celtic Knots, all published by Thames & Hudson
Career
In 1974 Meehan discovered the triple grid format for creating
Knotwork
A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a ''hitch'' fastens a rope to another object; a ...
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Bibliography
* Celtic Design: Knotwork: The Secret Method of the Scribes by Aidan Meehan published 1991
* Celtic Design: A Beginner's Manual by Aidan Meehan published 1991
* Celtic Design: Animal Patterns by Aidan Meehan published 1992
* Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters by Aidan Meehan published 1992
* Celtic Design: Spiral Patterns by Aidan Meehan published 1993
* Celtic Design: Maze Patterns by Aidan Meehan published 1993
* Celtic Design: The Tree of Life by Aidan Meehan published 1995
* Celtic Design: The Dragon and the Griffin: The Viking Impact by Aidan Meehan published 1995
* Celtic Patterns for Painting and Crafts by Aidan Meehan 1997
* Celtic Alphabets by Aidan Meehan published 1998
* Celtic Borders by Aidan Meehan Published 1999
* The Book of Kells Painting Book by Aidan Meehan published 1999
* The Lindisfarne Painting Book by Aidan Meehan 2000
* Celtic Knots: Mastering the Traditional Patterns by Aidan Meehan published 2003
* The Treasury of Celtic Knots by Aidan Meehan 2005
* The Celtic Design Book by Aidan Meehan published 2007
See also
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Celtic knot
Celtic knots (, , , ) are a variety of knots and Style (visual arts)#Stylization, stylized graphical representations of knots used for decoration, used extensively in the Celtic style of Insular art. These knots are most known for their adapta ...
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Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth () is an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the h ...
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Celtic maze
Celtic mazes are straight-line spiral key patterns that have been drawn all over the world since prehistoric times. The patterns originate in early Celtic developments in stone and metal-work, and later in medieval Insular art. Prehistoric spiral ...
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Endless knot
file:Endless knot detail, from- Burmese-Pali Manuscript. Wellcome L0026495 (cropped).jpg, Endless knot in a Burmese Pali manuscript
The endless knot or eternal knot is a symbolic Knot (mathematics), knot and one of the Ashtamangala, Eight Au ...
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Book of Kells
The Book of Kells (; ; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. 8 sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illustrated manuscript and Celts, Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the Gospel, four Gospels of the New Testament togeth ...
References
External links
Aidan Meehan on Goodreads
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Celtic Revival
21st-century Irish male artists
Irish male writers