knotwork
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Traditionally, Celtic art, ordered and organic, is defined by elaborately ornamented objects built from recurring, interlinked forms: spirals, geometric patterns, knotwork, S-scrolls and fantastical, hybrid beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
“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 • Sep. 30, 2022
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 • Sep. 16, 2022
The Irish tradition absorbed the Vikings; it digested the animal motifs and decorative knotwork of Scandinavia; but it could not survive the English.
From Time Magazine Archive
The leaves seem to grow out of the dark gold, to be living things, their stems crossing over one another in a delicate knotwork.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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