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The triquetra is often used artistically as a design element when Celtic knotwork is used, especially in association with the modern Celtic nations. The triquetra, also known as a "Irish Trinity Knot", is often found as a design element in popular Irish jewelry such as claddaghs and other wedding or engagement rings.
Triquetra interlaced with a circle (ribbons or pseudo-Celtic knotwork). This is a traditional Christian Trinitarian symbol, but similar signs are also sometimes used by new agers or neo-pagans (though more often in non-interlaced form, as in Zoso.svg, Triquetra on book cover.jpg, or Triquetra.jpg). In this interlaced form, can be known as the ...
Celtic knots (Irish: snaidhm Cheilteach, Welsh: cwlwm Celtaidd, Cornish: kolm Keltek, Scottish Gaelic: snaidhm Ceilteach) are a variety of knots and stylized graphical representations of knots used for decoration, used extensively in the Celtic style of Insular art.
One very basic form of Celtic or pseudo-Celtic linear knotwork; alternative decorative form of Image:Celtic-knot-basic-alternate.svg. Date: 2006: Source: SVG version of Image:Celtic-knot-basic.png This image is converted from the following PostScript code:
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For variant forms of a basic (pseudo-)Celtic knotwork cross, see Knotwork-cross.svg, Knotwork-cross-multicolored.svg, and Knotwork-cross-alternate.svg. Date: 2006: Source: SVG version of Celtic-knot-basic-linear.png: Author: AnonMoos (PostScript source and PNG); Erin Silversmith (first SVG conversion) SVG development
English: A simple Celtic knot with doubled threads. The design is taken from an ornament in the Lindisfarne Gospels, fol. 211r , where it appears at the base of the P of principium in the opening phrase of the Gospel of John, IN Principium erat uerbum .
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