Yes, it is. We are prisoners in a strange new world.

That about covers it.

We know the answer to that.

Whatever happened to if you cannot say something nice, say nothing?

Sounds wonderful.

Thank you for introducing me to that term - guilloche- google and Wikipedia connect it mainly with engraving, but also with Greek and early Assyrian tiles. So the monk/monks doing the Book of Kells must have been familiar with the Roman mosiacs. I had connected the design with Celtic works.

The interlacing shows connections to the Book of Kells. Thank you for publishing this.

Thank you for clearing up the misinformation.