Irish Skill in Leather Work
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Mackworth-Praed, Ben. The Book of Kells. London: Random House, 1998.
"Every region where Christianity flourished produced Gospels in its own particular style. But few decorated them with such magnificence as the monks of northern Britain and Ireland where the so-called "Insular" style evolved and flourished.
While Byzantine, Italian, and Saxon art all influenced the Insular style, its mainspring was the skill in decorating metalwork and leather which the Celts brought with them when they arrived in Ireland from mainland Europe and Britain in pre-Christian times" (n.p.).
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