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[[File:CelticCross.svg|border|96x176px]] Public domain Public domain false false This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain , because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
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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.
Description: Celtic or pseudo-Celtic decorative knot intended to fill a square. For a different version with transparent background, green ribbon, and actual square field, see File:Celtic-knot-insquare-green-transparentbg.svg.
Since the Celtic Revival, the ringed cross became an emblem of Celtic identity, in addition to its more traditional religious symbolism. [6] Modern interest in the symbol increased because of Alexander and Euphemia Ritchie. The two worked on the island of Iona in Scotland from 1899 to 1940 and popularised use of the Celtic cross in jewelry. [7]
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It is used by all Cornish people as a symbol of their identity. [2] The flag is attributed to Saint Piran, a 5th-century Cornish abbot. But the white cross and black background design is also the coat of arms of the Saint-Perran (or Saint-Pezran) family from Cornouaille in Brittany, recorded from the 15th century. [3]