You can use the Celtic Knot Font to to create patterns for ANY craft!
The Celtic Knot Font is perfect for designing craft projects!
Because it is totally resizeable it can be scaled to fit any project. Create your Celtic Knotwork on your computer and modify it until you get exactly the perfect knotwork for your project - then print it!
Just some of the crafts for which it can be used:
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Whatever your craft or hobby, you can decorate it with ornate Celtic Knotwork!
I created the design for this box with the Font, and then carved it out using a CNC milling machine:
The extreme accuracy of the Font characters enables them to be used in computer controlled applications such as laser engraving, vinyl sign cutting, CAD CAM for jewelry making, and CNC machining and routing.
My wife Laurie used the Charted Style Celtic Knot Font to make the pattern for this beadwork project:
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Examples
of the unique arts and crafts created by our customers using the
Celtic Knot Font:
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Kathy Johnson created the Celtic knot designs for these beautiful applique quilts with the Font (note the blue ribbon!).
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Custom painter W. David Webster of ThikSkin Design used the Celtic Knot Font to create the knotwork (except for the shamrock) for this spectacular motorcycle tank and fender. To read his description of how he did it, click here.
These awesome leather motorcycle saddlebags were designed and carved by Guy Whelan. Click here to read the details.
Sue Barstow of Kenyon-Barstow Company sent us this photo of a beautiful stained glass panel she created - and she says she plans to design many more with the font!
Rickey Turner designed this spectacular stained glass doorway set with the font. The photos show it on the workbench and installed.
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Tereena Clarke of Artecy Cross Stitch offers high-quality printable patterns, including some designed with the Celtic Knot Font, such as this lovely Celtic knot heart counted cross stitch pattern:
Maria Lee created this spectacular bracelet with black, silver, and gold-plated delica beads:
This New York Times bestseller used the knot from the Celtic Knot Font CD for the cover art!
Ken Pite and the students at Kumsheen School in Lytton, British Columbia created these gorgeous CD boxes with a computer controlled laser cutter/engraver.
This exquisite clock was carved by Marty Leenhouts of MyChipCarving.com.
These unique stencils are part of a new Irish collection created by Tori Padilla-Williamson of Stencil Me In.
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Professional illustrator and graphic designer Dale Chase of Chase Face Media used the font to create the knotwork designs for this stunning chess table he made. Here are his tips for how he did it.
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Gary Knox carved this handsome cross out of walnut wood.
Jack Hamilton of ScorpionJacks does custom laser engraving on glass and wood.
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This is just one of the numerous patterns created from designs made with the font that are available as counted cross stitch booklets on Shawn Snaples' Cowtown Cross Stitch website.
This lovely cross stitch piece was done by Scarlett Rose. You can purchase the embroidery machine design files (PES, HUS, PCS, JEF, XXX, or SEW formats) for a variety of lovely Celtic knots, hearts, and crosses by visiting Scarlett Rose.
Our customer Magda Pietrzak in Glasgow, Scotland had stitched out these nice designs from our Charted Pattern Pack.
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Andy DePaule of LuthierSupply.com offers these gorgeous rosettes and fret board inlays for custom guitars.
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Cathal McDonnell uses the Celtic Knot Font with a CNC vinyl sign cutter to make signs and to create masks for painting, goldleafing and etching glass. Here are some examples of the results:
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Pub sign (recognize the knots from the top corners of this page?) |
This beautifully shaded woodburning project was sent in by Nedra Denison of nedraspyrography.com Nedra teaches and authors books about pyrography, but this was her first design created with the Celtic Knot Font.
Barbara Haney of huckleberryhandpaints.com sent these photos of her handpainted slates. She says, "The old way [hand drawing] just made it too expensive timewise to use for my slates and so I'm delighted with the software..."
Chris Jordan created this beautiful hand woven wool rug. You can see another Celtic knot rug in progress on the loom at his website spindizzy.net/rugs
This gorgeous fireplace was decorated by Heather Stoehr using transfer paper and woodburning tools.
Tom Collins designed his own tattoo with the Font. He was kind enough to share a photo, but has requested that folks create their own designs and not copy this one for their own tattoos.
(For more on using the Font to design tattoos and our special Tattoo Set with over 200 patterns, click here.)
Would you believe this box was Martha Schreffler's first pyrography project? In her words, "I wanted to share with you my delight and success in creating a woodburning project within about three hours of purchasing your knot font."
A while back, Jackie Catts posted the "pattern" for a dragonfly knot to the Knotwork Network.
Steve Blandford made a few changes to that design and used a scrollsaw to create this lovely work of art in walnut.
Tom Jarvis shared his own cool scrollsaw version of the dragonfly, along with the text to create it (see the Knotwork Network for Tom's "pattern").
Lisa Sensinger sent these photos of an ostrich egg she carved. Called "Hearts United", it won "1st Place Novice Relief Carving" and "Best of Show Runner-up" in The Eggshell Sculptor Eggshell Carving Contest 2002. Hard to believe that she's a novice, isn't it?
Tom Beck created this beautiful cherry wood box. The intricate Celtic knot design is cut from walnut.
Sharon of Scrappy Celtics created these embellishments for scrapbooks. |
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A heart design created with the Outline Style Celtic Knot Font: |
The same design cut out for a scrapbook: |
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Jim Morton III made and woodburned this very attractive CD rack. Plans for building it are available through his website, dreambuiltdesigns.com
Holly Moore of Custom Leathercrafts made this wood and leather Irish whistle box as a gift for a friend.
Here's a close-up of the design tooled in the leather:
Thanks to Stargazer
for sharing this lovely box, made with polymer clay covering a small tin.
She is creating a tutorial on how to make the polymer clay canes using
the Celtic Knot Font - be sure to check our tutorials page next month!
This bracelet was made by Oberon Design. They are the folks who make those beautiful leather bound journals and checkbook covers with Celtic knotwork on them. They are using the Celtic Knot Font to design some of their new products!
Pat Whittemore created this pretty stitchery. She teaches classes in the San Jose, California area on using Pfaff machine embroidery software.
The design for this embroidered Welsh lovespoon was created and stitched out by Dave Carter.
Anne Pyle of CeannMor.com digitized one of our sample knots to be stitched with an embroidery machine. It looks great with a monogram in the center!
This project was created by sculptor and woodworker Michael Macdonald. Michael made the box and then embellished it with a carved knot motif created with the Celtic Knot Font.
This lovely pendant was laser engraved in wood by Matt and Fin McNiel of True Reflections Laser Engraving.
All of the projects shown on this page were designed with the Celtic Knot Font!
Click here to order or call (408)270-7227 9am to 9pm PST.
What you get for just $20: |
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The Celtic Knot Font that lets you make an endless number of your own designs. |
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76 fully editable and resizable royalty-free sample designs made with the Font. (Use them as-is or modify to suit your needs.) |
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A free Celtic Uncial-style lettering font. |
NEW - charted graph versions for beadwork and cross stitch!
The following is the pattern created by just one key of the new Charted Celtic Knot Fonts:
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Charted 12G Grid Style |
Charted 12B Brick Style |
Click here to see how the Celtic Knot Font works
Click here to order!
(With online ordering you could be playing with it in minutes!)
...or call (408)270-7227 9am to 9pm PST
A number of the quilters in the Celtic Appliqué Quilter's Group are using the font to design quilts. We can't wait to see pictures!
Visit Scarlett Rose's website for a variety of quilting goodies, information about her books and workshops, and to see photos of some really beautiful quilts.
Be sure to check back often as we will be adding updates to the site!
We will continue to add content to this page including photos of crafts made with the Celtic Knot Font and patterns for crafts that you can make! Submit photos of your craft and we will include it here!
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