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« on: August 18, 2019, 03:30:36 PM »

Inspired by the most recent Celtic Collections newsletter, this series of posts covers the Celtic Knot, its history, and its various forms.

Knots are interlace patterns, a style that originated in the artwork of the late Roman Empire around the 3rd or 4th century AD or perhaps even further back, in Byzantine Constantinople. Although the knot appears in several key religious texts, the knot actually wove its way (pun intended) into Celtic culture even before the Christian influence emerged in about 450 AD.

The exact origins of the Celtic Knot lie beyond a distant fog though, because the Kelts weren't exactly known for their writing. When stories are passed down from one generation the next verbally, they tend to become distorted pretty quickly. However, the Irish Celtic knot, a style known as Ultimate La Tene or Hiberno-Saxon Insular art surfaced around 650 AD when Gaelic monks in monasteries of Ireland and Britain put together biblical manuscripts. This type of artwork found extensive use in the Book of Kells, an 8th century manuscript and one of the treasures of Irish history, preserved in Trinity College in Dublin.

Celtic Knots are known as "endless knots" (also known as "mystic knots"): a series of overlapping and/or interwoven knots that have no clearly defined beginning or end.

Stay tuned. More to come...
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