Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters

I first bought Aiden Meehan's book "Celtic Knots Mastering the Traditional Patterns", which is a seminal work for anyone interested in this subject, and was very excited to find his book on illuminated letters. Initially, I was disappointed to find that all of the illustrations were in black and white. However, the author anticipated me. In his introduction, he states "Books about celtic illumination usually present us with colour reproductions that focus on the most elaborate examples as tightly packed with details as a Persian carpet. This book is a collection of simpler ornamental letters picked out and rendered as line drawings, ready to be coloured." The book does not disappoint. Meehan provides many examples of exquisitely rendered drawings. He explains the symbolism of the patterns and provides direction on how to illuminate the letters while explaining why the letters are illuminated in a particular way. This little book is a veritable treasure of sources and symbolism of celtic letters.

The Celtic sure did some amazing artwork. I bought this book to view the artwork closer. This book delivers.

This book makes Celtic lettering styles accessible to anyone. As great as Meehan's other books.

This is an excellent book for those looking to create celtic designs.This book teaches about the development of illumination. It then goes into the major initials, decorated alphabet, decorated ampersands, the animal alphabet and animal ampersands.The book is best used when accompianied by Aidan's other Celtic Design books. I have 7 of the books in this series and love them all!All in all this is a great book for someone looking to create celtic designs.