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George Bain

1881–1968

Scottish artist and teacher whose Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction (1951) showed how the knots of Insular manuscripts and Pictish stones are drawn from a simple grid, and revived the art.

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Portrait: Lynne Mackenzie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)

Patterns shaped by their work

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