Celtic No.1 by Owen Jones – Exquisite Fine Art Print

Your grandmother's kitchen had patterns like these—woven into tea towels, pressed into butter, the geometry of home.

Celtic No.1 – Owen Jones 1856

This is the Celtic design that started it all: intricate interlacing knots and spirals rendered in Jones's revolutionary chromolithography technique. Published in his landmark 1856 Grammar of Ornament, it became the visual language that defined how the world saw Irish and Celtic art. Bring this foundational pattern home—the one that taught everyone what Celtic beauty actually was.

About the Artist

Owen Jones was a Welsh architect and ornamental designer who became obsessed with pattern. He traveled across North Africa and the Middle East, studying decoration in mosques and palaces, but it was Celtic work that convinced him ancient cultures held secrets modern design had forgotten. The Grammar of Ornament became his masterwork—a systematic exploration of ornament across civilizations. Jones didn't just document Celtic patterns; he elevated them to the same status as Egyptian and Islamic design, which was radical in 1856.Tracked, securely packaged, delivered in 2-5 business days.