Celtic Knot Grid Paper
A square grid with each cell divided into eighths, heavy on the cells and light on the divisions.
A square grid with each cell divided into eighths, heavy on the cells and light on the divisions.
Choose Celtic Knot Grid Paper from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
A Celtic knot is not drawn freehand. It is built on a grid: the cord runs diagonally across each cell, crossing at fixed points, and the pattern comes from which crossings are broken and which run through. The eighth divisions are where the cord edges land — the odd eighths, 1, 3, 5 and 7 — which is why the light lines are drawn there and not at the quarters.
Get the grid right and the knot follows almost mechanically; get it wrong and no amount of redrawing will make the bands the same width. That is the whole reason a construction grid exists.
Start with the cell size you want the finished band to suit.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
Because the cord has width. The band edges land on the odd eighths, which is what makes every band the same thickness and every crossing symmetrical.
20 to 30 mm suits drawing by hand. The finished band will be about a quarter of the cell wide, so a 25 mm cell gives a 6 mm cord.
Either. Print it light and draw over it, or print it dark and work on tracing paper laid on top — which is how most carvers transfer a design.
