Reflection

A pattern named after King Solomon in the bible, which was famous for his great wisdom, wealth, and power. The double interlocking rings of King Solomon’s knot are a symbol of wisdom in legend. King Solomon’s knot consists of two rings that cross each other four times.

Knot, like weaving and weaving, are the oldest handicraft skills of human beings. They belong to different stages of development, but they all have the most primitive and basic artistic attributes. Tracing back, the knot arose at the dawn of human development. also, knot at the same time, so the knot is not by taboo points, but three-dimensional can also be flat.

The winding method is a combination of knots between the threads, which is characterized by rich variation. Through different materials, different winding methods can weave rich and colorful texture effects. Braiding is a method of braiding with different amounts of rope on a parallel basis. The patterns woven by this method are regular and therefore give people a feeling of smoothness.

Knot for ancient people have a deep emotion, the knot is not only common and practical, in daily life, but also can express emotion. For example, it expresses intimacy, harmony, strength, and unity, and contains deep emotions. Whether it is the unity that expresses strength firmly, the knot that is closely connected, or even the knot that is a knot that expresses love, it is the reunion and beautiful emotion. The spiritual sustenance of ancient people, therefore, this art form has more vitality.

After finish the knots, I felt the wide space of weaving art applied. It is a little difficult because the knot connects to the different dots. Unexpectedly, I took 2 hours to make them.

During the knotting, I gradually realize its decorative beauty, from the small knot experience the essence of natural beauty. The knot is small, but it embodies the wisdom, dexterity, and artistic wisdom of the laboring people in past. It endows the flat and monotonous rope with profound and rich artistic connotations. It is a calming experience. People through a knot, or express thoughts and feelings, or to place their hopes, or pray for happiness and peace; The more is to show adornment aesthetic feeling. So on and so forth, it is only the knots, the patterns that make the folk arts and crafts show a colorful world, from which people can enjoy their emotions.

Analysis of Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne Gospels produced around 700 years ago in a monastery on Lindisfarne Island, England and the book is now in the British Museum in London, England. Each of the gospels has a picture of the apostles and their symbols, a carpet page, an initial page. In addition, the book also has a number of pages, is decorated with patterns.

One of the pages shows the carpet of the cross (figure 1), which fully shows the artistic style of the codex. What makes this one so compelling is that it shows the collision of two forces. One is the restless, dynamic, and powerful sense of stability. This is the perfect combination of Irish Saxon ornamentation and Christian crucifixion, which finally achieves a wonderful balance and symmetry. In the face of such a picture, we have to succumb to the complex pattern structure.

It seems to be chaotic and endless; however, it is actually interlocking, just like a highly sophisticated instrument, hiding rules. Add color and harmony, we have no idea how the artist writes or controls so many moving lines and patterns. Finally, with a full page of the geometric form of the cross to suppress the picture, so that thousands of agitation to calm and stability, this is the power of Christianity.

Codex illustrations provide vivid and diverse ways of expression for religion, and religion builds the spiritual core for illustrations. Besides, the pursuit of harmony in the west is based on “number”. The ancient philosophers visualized the pursuit of harmony and put it into practice. Also, it reproduces according to the appearance of objective things, using the language form of plastic art to explore the “theory” behind the image, through the study of individual things, to find the commonality of this type.

That is the unity of personality and commonness, to achieve the closest to the “true” form of the beauty of harmony. In addition, the expression and exploration of color in western classical culture are closely related to the spread of Christian art to some extent. The symbolic power of color in codex illustrations and other art forms has been fully demonstrated and developed in the process of visualizing Christian religious doctrine and image content. Spiral weave, cross weave, animal weave, fully embodies the style of Irish Saxony art.

Since the 4th century AD, when Constantine the great allowed Christianity to worship freely in the Roman empire, the cross gradually became a symbol of Christianity and Jesus, appearing and being used as a symbol of faith in the sarcophagus, church vestments, church plans, and so on. Its symbolic meaning derives from an ancient western instrument of torture, which was used to execute infidels and traitors, and to nail the criminal on a cross-shaped wooden frame to let him die slowly. In the bible, Jesus took the place of sin for the world, died by crucifixion, rose again, and ascended to heaven. Thus, the cross became the symbol of good news for god and man.

Pythagoras school 18 is the earliest university school in the history of ancient Greek philosophy. They believe that “number” is the origin of everything and the existence of things is mathematical existence. Besides, beauty is the harmony of Numbers. Also, “form” is directly connected with “number”, which constitutes the essence of the world.

Therefore, ancient western philosophers visualized the pursuit of harmony and put it into practice. This view, as we in the western academic art education of the students is the most feeling grew up under the modeling accuracy requirement is very strict, especially on the human body, everywhere is filled with the proportion of various standards, for examples, face with “three court five eyes”.

The perfect standards set by the ancient Greeks in BC. After historical verification, they were still the example of visual harmony in the temple of art. This idea that beauty is a number of harmony to the great ancient Greek philosopher Plato (427-348 BC) here, put forward the famous “theory” theory, he believes that outside the perceptual reality of the world. In this respect, the patterns in Lindisfarne Gospels are probably more successful than most of the earlier and later artists.

Analysis of “becoming,” “mediation,” and “emergence”

The reasons Tilghman suggests that in the Lindisfarne Gospels, the decoration calls attention to its making are the following. Before the middle ages, from the 4th century to the 5th century AD in ancient Greece and Rome, the subjects of paintings were less religious and more concerned with people’s life activities. The middle ages was a period dominated by religious belief. Under the harsh rule, oppression, and enslavement of the Roman empire for a long time, the Jewish people at the bottom of the society urgently needed to seek a “messiah” to liberate them, and Christianity used god’s love to sympathize with the bottom people.

Christian art has long been out of the control of realistic painting in the Greco-roman period. His focus is not on how to depict the world, but on how to depict the existence of divinity more realistically and how to perfectly express the spiritual state of divinity. Pictures are simple and flexible. The scripter has more room for imagination in the creation and more freedom in personal practice. Obviously, the illustration of codex has become the most favorable missionary tool. Strabo once said: “for the illiterate, the picture is just like a kind of text”. Therefore, it needs to notice the making and express the deep meaning.

How painting interlace design could be meditative, inducing a state of “flow” in the maker?  The subject matter of expression can range from the religious category to the wider secular life, depending on the mind of the producer and the request of the person who commissioned the codex. The knot wood body is by one or several ropes line weave various knot and form specific shapes, designs. In the process of braiding, make braiding a thing to add aesthetic feeling more. In order to express their thoughts and feelings, people endow many knot patterns with various meanings, and even give them mysterious religious colors, so as to communicate with the gods, worship the ancestors of heaven and earth, and avoid evil spirits and disasters.

Usually, “emergence” is associated with digital art and the idea is applied to medieval manuscripts. The primitive knot art has double or multiple meanings like clothing, dance, and other art types. In addition to the functions of practicality, avoiding evil spirits, totem symbols, and signs, the decorative and aesthetic nature is the important connotation. The art of a handmade knot is different from the pure warp and weft are woven fabric, which reflects its formal beauty through the crisscross and roundabout of rope lines.

The gradient of knot size; The three-dimensional feeling that the change of administrative levels produces and the elements such as the soft and hard of material quality, additional adornment, decide at the aesthetic interest of braided work. Give a person bring rich fantasy and a warm aesthetic feeling.

As a kind of art, knitting has a wide range of uses and status in today’s world. It can explore more considerable potential from the aspects of material, shape, knot type and decoration, and show a more beautiful style in scientific research and practical aspects.

10 King Solomon’s knots