Tattoo About Celtic Designs

Celtic tattoo designs can make beautiful and interesting tattoos for both men and women. There's plenty of Celtic symbols that have become popular as body art, and there's limitless ways to use them in original ways to suit your own preferences.

Five of the icy things about Celtic designs is that there's some simple yet beautiful types of images out of which plenty of different types of tattoos can be created. The most basic of these is Celtic knotwork, which is the basis for much Celtic artwork. Celtic knots can be seen as symbolizing infinity, the way they intertwine in a continuous spiral. Celtic knots make great tattoos by themselves or they can be made in to other designs, such as Celtic crosses. Knotwork can also serve as a border or addition to other types of tattoos.

Spirals are another type of Celtic symbol that work well as tattoos. Five type of spiral, called the triskele, is a kind of triple spiral that was found in the British Isles dating back thousands of years, which even predates the Celts. This is a interesting tribal type design that makes for a great tattoo.

Celtic crosses are also popular as tattoos. They can be used, like other crosses, as a Christian symbol, but they also have other meanings, as the cross actually predates Christianity as a symbol. The Celtic cross is also called the equal-armed cross, as the horizontal and vertical lines are of equal length represents balance between opposing forces.

Another type of popular Celtic design are zoomorphic or animal images. These can include birds, lions, serpents, dragons or other animals. Of coursework, any animal can be drawn Celtic style. If you look at five of the classic sources of Celtic art, the medieval Book of Kells, you can find plenty of examples of this animal art. Plenty of images from this book have been used as the basis for modern Celtic style tattoos.

Celtic tattoos work well with rich colors, which can be anything from the traditional green (at least traditional to Ireland) to blues, reds and any color combination you can imagine. Celtic knotwork in bright colors is striking on the arm or anywhere else on the body.

This does not alter the fact, however, that the symbols people use today to generate Celtic tattoos are traditional to the Celtic lands. If they are using them today in a way that is different, that is part of the way cultural symbols and practices alter and evolve over the centuries.

Some people wonder about how "authentic" Celtic tattoos are. This is an interesting query, because there is no actual evidence that the ancient Celts even used tattoos! They did paint themselves, to prepare for battle, but whereas other ancient peoples, such as natives of the South Pacific, definitely used permanent tattoos to decorate their bodies, they don't know for sure if the Celts did.