tiny papercuttings

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juli  and I just got back from one of our biannual trips to Cambridge for her schooling, and I am having trouble readjusting to ordinary wash-the-dishes life. Also, one of the goats seriously injured herself yesterday, and while she's now totally fine and harassing the sheep as usual, I keep having flashbacks to the overwhelming image of holding a struggling goat with blood matted in her fur at inopportune times, such as while trying to eat.

Time for happy distractions. Suggest to me a subject for a Tiny Papercutting!

Tiny Papercuttings will be made out of 3x5 index cards (8ish by 12ish cm), and I'll post a reasonably sized photo, and also a dreamwidth-icon-sized image, like the icon I'm using for this post.

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Re: Hmm...

[corvi]

I was stymied on knotwork, since papercutting isn't a very good way to make exact, symmetric designs, but juli suggested I look at Manx knotwork, which is somewhat less geometric. I found a great knotwork dragon in this paper about how Scandinavian motifs influenced Manx knotwork.

You have a ton of great icons already, but if you would like a Celtic-Scandinavian knotwork dragon, maybe for posting about the cross-culture crew at Hart's Farm, here you go!



Thank you for the prompt, it definitely broadened my papercutting skills, and my appreciation of the breadth of knotwork. :)