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knotwork

British  
/ ˈnɒtˌwɜːk /

noun

  1. ornamentation consisting of a mass of intertwined and knotted cords

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Later, after she met her husband — and before they had children — the couple collaborated on a series of handmade wooden baby rattles they sold as part of Knotwork LA, and she began to do ceramics out of their home in Highland Park.

From Los Angeles Times

“Knotwork LA was created as an outlet to identify the work we do in our spare time,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

“Céilí” is the word in Irish for a house party, and also for group dances with braiding spatial patterns drawn from Celtic knotwork.

From New York Times

Reni Gower’s intricately hand-cut white-paper curtain draws from the decorative motifs of Amish quilts, Celtic knotwork and Islamic tiles, and curls away from the wall to yield complex shadows.

From Washington Post

The tall Celtic-cross gravestones carved with elaborate knotwork obscured my view until I was almost on top of the ruins: two sloped ditches, gravelike in their own way, that contain the remains of the ancient border, now no more than a shallow layer of foundation stones.

From Washington Post