Quadruple Spiral
Roundel - Susan Yee
This issue opens with another of Susan
Yee's spiral roundels studies, part of an exploratory series she drew in
1981. This design is usually done with triples on
the outer edge, in order to use quadruples instead, an extra coil needs to
be accounted for. Since adjacent spirals on the outer edge may be
connected by a broken-backed S-shaped path, often reduced to a hooked
beak, the hook can be turned into a triple spiral, and the loose end
of the quadruple spiral hooked into the small triskel on the outer
rim.
Triple Spiral Roundel
- Susan Yee
This is a more traditional motif, the basic triskel roundel: four triple spirals, connected to
the one in the middle by three C-shaped
paths.
The outer paths are S-shaped, with beaked hooks at each crook in
the path.
The middle spiral turns in the reverse direction as the
surrounding three.
The focus here is on the treatments of the internal
triple spirals, these are all continuous-line triskel variations - the
outer set are coiled hairspring spirals, and the inner a Durrow-style
bird-head terminal, set in the classic triskele arrangement.
Four-fish Square Knot
- Susan Yee
This knot is based on a five-by-five square dot grid. It is very similar
to the Cumdach Molaise Knot, which was
illustrated above, on page 76. That was built on a 4x4 square dot grid. The horizonatal and vertical break lines
only join together on the odd-number grids: 5, 7, 9, and up.
