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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.
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.
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 .
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
Simple 7-crossing quasi-Celtic linear decorative knot. Date: 2010 (PostScript); 2013 (converted to SVG and uploaded to Commons) Source:
The knot is made up of straight lines which are vertical, horizontal, or at 45° angles, and of circular arcs all of the same radius. If the large circle were to be removed, then the over-under interlacing of the crossings of the horizontal and vertical lines at the center would have to be reversed to preserve the alternation of the knot ...
A quasi-Celtic ornamental knot which fills a square. For much simpler knotwork which fills a square, see File:Celtic-knot-insquare-green-transparentbg.svg. For alternative visual realization, see File:Celtic-knot-insquare-39crossings red-on-black.svg. Date: 2010: Source: Own work-- Converted from the following vector PostScript source code:
Jim Morrison and Patricia Kennealy completed their Celtic wedding with Claddagh rings. [23] In the television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Claddagh ring is seen when Angel presents the ring to Buffy as a birthday present. In the novel, Goldfinger, Jill Masterton is wearing the ring. However, without the crown to emphasize her lack of ...