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A knot built on a hidden grid.
Also known as: Celtic knotwork, Insular interlace
The interlaced band pattern of insular manuscript and stone carving, constructed on a concealed grid.
Forms the interlaced ornament of insular manuscripts, metalwork and carved stone.
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Built by placing breaks on a dot grid: the positions of the breaks determine the whole path, so the pattern is generated by a small set of choices rather than drawn strand by strand.
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One of several pattern traditions generated by a rule on a dot grid, alongside the sona sand drawing and the threshold patterns of South India — unconnected traditions arriving at the same method.
Contexts: History, Public information
Bands woven over and under one another in a continuous plait, constructed on a grid of dots and breaks that determines the path and does not appear in the finished work.
Both generate an interlaced pattern by a rule applied to a grid of dots rather than by drawing it directly.