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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.
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:
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
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One basic form of Celtic or pseudo-Celtic linear knotwork (an extended form of Image:Celtic-knot-basic.svg with two big loops at the ends). For alternative forms, see Image:Celtic-knot-basic-linear.svg, Image:Bar-knot-basic-decorative.png
One very basic form of Celtic or pseudo-Celtic linear knotwork. Stone Celtic crosses, such as this, are a major source of knowledge regarding Celtic knot design. Carpet page from Lindisfarne Gospels, showing knotwork detail. Almost all of the folios of the Book of Kells contain small illuminations like this decorated initial.
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 .
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 ...