The knot, as stylized and used in Celtic wedding rings design is a perfect symbol for the bonds of matrimony and the joining of two lives. If you and your partner are considering using wedding bands that incorporate traditional Celtic patterns, you may be curious as to the Celtic heritage. The Celts encompass a large number of different ethnic groups connected by a common Indo-European language.

The Celtic nations are essentially the British Isles with the exception of Ireland. In England the Celtic tradition was subsumed by Anglo-Saxon culture. The long held belief that all Celtic culture trace back to a common tribe has been disproved by genetic investigators and it is now believed Celtic culture was spread by conquering other unrelated tribes or through simple cultural influence of neighboring peoples.

The term “Celtic art,” which includes Celtic jewelry, refers to stylistic similarities between artifacts of different cultures that suggest a prehistoric relationship to those who spoke the “Proto-Celtic” language. In modern terms, it refers to’th century Celtic revival art, which was an expression of the desire of contemporary Celts in the British Isles to distinguish themselves from the Anglo-Saxon roots of the English.

The Celts were not influenced by Greco-Roman representational art traditions and evolved a distinct stylized abstract form of decoration that has more in common with Arabic decorative traditions, save for the rare use of symmetry. The frequent use of endlessly repeating, narrow, linear patterns was adopted by the Western European Catholic Church and is seen in Christian manuscripts, churches and cathedrals throughout the world.

The now familiar patterns seen in Celtic wedding rings are fashioned from stylized representations of rope knots, thus making them perfect visual metaphors for “tying the knot.”

Modern Celtic wedding rings utilize any of about a dozen traditional Celtic knot patterns. Two or three patterns are sometimes combined. Added to this are edging styles or even edgeless models, which is made possible by fashioning the metal as rope strands that serve as their own edges.

The use of knot patterns in Celtic wedding band design makes them one of the few designs to regularly incorporate open space within the band. Gemstones are applied at the artisan’s discretion and many designs forego faceted gems in favor of the semi-precious polished stones used in historic Celtic jewelry. Types of knot patterns include; the Celtic Knot, Circle, Spiral and Heart as well as the braided two stranded Infinity Knot and the clover leaf like Trinity Knot.

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