Gawain Pins and Buttons

This design is based off of the manuscript of the famous Middle English poem Sir Gawain of the Green Knight (from the Cotton MS Nero A X manuscript). I've recreated one of the illustration by hand carving my own block print then printing and scanning it. The image depicts Sir Gawain near his final confrontation with the Green Knight.

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This design is based off of the manuscript of the famous Middle English poem Sir Gawain of the Green Knight (from the Cotton MS Nero A X manuscript). I've recreated one of the illustration by hand carving my own block print then printing and scanning it. The image depicts Sir Gawain near his final confrontation with the Green Knight.

heavy is the head that wears the crown

The Green Knight Sir Gawain Arthurian Legend

One. Year. Hence

Gawain preparing to take the agreed-upon blows from the Green Knight

Gawain and the Green knight is an ancient tale from English folklore where Sir Gawain plays the beheading game with the mysterious Green Knight and has his loyalty and honour severely tested. Artwork copyright Alan Lathwell

Once formal heraldry became a thing in the 12th century, the Knights of the Round Table got assigned coats of arms of their own. This one is Gawain's: Sable fretty argent, a label vert. Translated from blazonry: On a field of black and silver lattice, a green sash.

Fight between Gawain and a knight at the strange castle where his wounded brother Agravain lives . Digital elaboration and collage by Bulgan Lumini based on miniatures of Arthurian Legends, French Manuscripts 13th century

In the Arthurian canon, Gawain is typically the most passionate of Arthur's men. Here he is with his famous horse, Gryngolet.

The Green Knight Sir Gawain

The famous image from the story of Gawain and the Greek Knight found in British Library MS Cotton Nero A. X

A quick design.

He is King Arthur's nephew, son of Arthur's sister Morgause and King Lot of Orkney and Lothian. One of his brothers is the infamous Mordred. Gawain is a formidable but courteous and compassionate warrior, fiercely loyal to his king and his family. He is known as a friend to young knights, a defender of the poor and the unfortunate. In some literature, is initially close friendship with Sir Lancelot, becomes a bitter rivalry when he seeks vengeance for the death of his brothers. In this tradition, featured in Le Morte d'Arthur, Gawain's sinful ways and his unforgiving nature inadvertently lead to the fall of Arthur and the Round Table, and ultimately his own death by Lancelot's hand.

A quick design.

Green Knight design

A quick design.

A Green Knight once vibrant and alive, now long dead and no longer green.

Casual Barghest (FGO)

A Green Knight once vibrant and alive, now long dead and no longer green.

A quick design.

Are you worthy?

Gawain comes to the aid of the damsel with the gold belt .Digital elaboration and collage by Bulgan Lumini based on miniatures of Arthurian Legends, French Manuscripts 13th century

I always thought of Kay, Gawain, & Lancelot as the core of Arthur's round table. Here, I tried to portray Arthur formally asking those three to join with him

The Knights of the Round Table.

is this really all there is?