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Old 08-06-2010, 11:30 AM
tsterling tsterling is offline
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Default Re: Part 1: Celtic Line Drawing for Engravers


Now it’s time to start working on making everything look nice. I hope on your plaitwork you’ve used a pencil and have drawn all your circles and lines in very lightly! That’s important because now we’re going to go over all of our lines in ink, neaten everything up and then erase all the pencil lines. When you’re going over the lines for the ribbon with ink, make sure where one ribbon goes under another that all your lines appear to continue straight across, as if they really do connect up. Above, I’ve inked in all the lines, but haven’t erased the pencil marks yet.


Ribbons should continue under one weave so they look like they continue on. Like above:


Not like this:

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