Re: Re: Origins

[Guest guest]

Mike, I don't know Indo-European history well enough - is there a possibility that the Celts picked up such designs from India?

The Celts picked up a lot fr North Africa, including those Aran knitting patterns! There was an active trade rte frm North Africa n even Ethiopia. I had an Oxford friend and author Heinz Edgar Kiewe, who ran famous Needlework Shop there n he researched the patterns of the white patterned wool sweaters n wrote a book on their origins and a huge other book on the impact of transiting civilizations on inventions n design. He was also a friend of the "Inklings". I met w/him every yr I stopped at Oxford n we became good friends.See Google!

Like Carol, I associate these kinds of images with them, there is the same kind of endlessness being expressed I think . . . and for me, interdependence, and the delicate dance between order and chaos (yin and yang) have suddenly become very important concepts.

[Guest guest]

Mike, I don't know Indo-European history well enough - is there a possibility that the Celts picked up such designs from India?

The Celts picked up a lot fr North Africa, including those Aran knitting patterns! There was an active trade rte frm North Africa n even Ethiopia. I had an Oxford friend and author Heinz Edgar Kiewe, who ran famous Needlework Shop there n he researched the patterns of the white patterned wool sweaters n wrote a book on their origins and a huge other book on the impact of transiting civilizations on inventions n design. He was also a friend of the " Inklings " . I met w/him every yr I stopped at Oxford n we became good friends.See Google!

 

  Like Carol, I associate these kinds of images with them, there is the same kind of endlessness being expressed I think . . . and for me, interdependence, and the delicate dance between order and chaos (yin and yang) have suddenly become very important concepts.

*From the Berbers, not from the Arabs (who weren't there yet)... and yes - very possibly from India too... People got about a lot more than we imagine in those days... The Phoenicians had their gold worked by Irish goldsmiths and possibly planted cedar trees in the Cape, the Sanskrit word for 'lion' is singha... which came first, that or the East African simba?... (probably the latter in my opinion)...

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