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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.
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 "Trinity knot". (Christian Symbolism: The Triquetra represents the Holy ...
Interlaced Triquetra symbol inside an equilateral triangle which is interlaced with a circle (i.e. pseudo-Celtic knotwork or interlaced ribbons). Could be used as a Christian Trinitarian decorative/ornamental symbolic element, but might also be open to other interpretations.
Description: A tightly-knotted form of the Triquetra.. For a version with straight lines (not partial circular arcs), see Image:Valknut-Symbol-triquetra.svg.For curved versions of the triquetra which are not tightly knotted, see Image:Triquetra-Interlaced-Triangle-Circle.svg, Image:Triquetra-Vesica.svg, Image:Triquetra-Vesica-solid.png, Image:Triquetra-Double.svg, and Image:Triquetra-circle ...
The Valknut symbol in a form topologically equivalent to a Triquetra or trefoil knot. Found in early medieval Germanic inscriptions (see Tangelgarda Odin.jpg). See also Valknut-Symbol-borromean.svg and Valknut-Symbol-3linkchain-closed.png. For an alternate version of with thicker black lines see Valknut-Symbol-triquetra-alternate.svg.
Ornamental knot, combining heart and triquetra shapes to form an overall 10-crossing knot (knot theory 10_116). This is topologically equivalent to the decorative knot in the image File:Double-heart-knot_10crossings.svg. Date: September 2010: Source: Self-made graphic, generated from a version of the following vector PostScript source code:
Since the Triquetra is a Trinitarian symbol, this cross could be considered to be an emblem of the Christian Trinity. For other Trinity crosses, see Image:Cross-Bottony-Heraldry.svg , Image:Borromean-cross.png / Image:Borromean-cross.svg , Image:Celtic-Cross-Vodicka-decorative-triquetras-red.svg , and perhaps Image:Cross-Flory-Heraldry.svg .
The symbol appears in unicursal form, topologically a trefoil knot also seen in the triquetra. This unicursal form is found, for example, on the Tängelgårda stone. The symbol also appears in tricursal form, consisting of three linked triangles, topologically equivalent to the Borromean rings.