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 In real life, the design is drawn straight onto the wood piece, rather than using paper. For clarity’s sake, we’ll begin using paper for the pencil drawing parts, since we couldn’t get the pencil marks on the actual wood to show up well when scanned. Sorry about that. Here’s the “wood” part (simulated by two concentric circles on paper). |
 We begin by drawing 16 lines through the center. The number of lines are directly dependent on the size of the wood piece. This particular one is two inches in diameter, so we could get away with this many. Typically, the smaller the wood piece, the fewer divisions. |
 Next, we draw small circles along these lines. These are the beginnings of the Celtic line drawing system developed by Cheryl Samuel. The bigger the small circles, the thinner the final ribbons. Conversely, the smaller they are, the larger the ribbons are. |
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 Now, we place another set of small circles in between each four circles in the preceeding step. Forgetting these will guarantee failure, and is the most common mistake in this method. |
 In order to provide a little visual interest, we’ve added in “cuts” (the darker lines). These are like little stop signs, and the ribbons are not alloweed to go past the cuts. They have to bend around and “reflect” off of the lines. |
 Now, starting clockwise, we begin a series of under and over lines conecting the little circles. There are specific (but simple and easy) rules which govern this behavior. Note how they stop at the cuts. |
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