How to draw a Celtic Cross (8 easy stages)

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Learn to draw a Celtic Cross in 8 easy stages. You don't have to be an artist to draw this impressive Celtic knot-work Cross. If you can draw dots, diamonds, bits of circles and straight lines you can easily create this work of art.
A fragment of a Gospel Book, now in the Durham Cathedral library and created in northern Britain in the 7th century, contains the earliest example of true knotted designs in the Celtic manner.
True knotwork began in northern Italy and southern Gaul and spread to Ireland by the 7th century. In modern times, Celtic art is popularly thought of in terms of national identity and therefore specifically Irish, Scottish or Welsh.

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