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Later, after she met her husband — and before they had children — the couple collaborated on a series of handmade wooden baby rattles they sold as part of Knotwork LA, and she began to do ceramics out of their home in Highland Park.

“Knotwork LA was created as an outlet to identify the work we do in our spare time,” she said.

“Céilí” is the word in Irish for a house party, and also for group dances with braiding spatial patterns drawn from Celtic knotwork.

Reni Gower’s intricately hand-cut white-paper curtain draws from the decorative motifs of Amish quilts, Celtic knotwork and Islamic tiles, and curls away from the wall to yield complex shadows.

The tall Celtic-cross gravestones carved with elaborate knotwork obscured my view until I was almost on top of the ruins: two sloped ditches, gravelike in their own way, that contain the remains of the ancient border, now no more than a shallow layer of foundation stones.