Custom Celtic Wedding Rings?
Q: About three months ago, my fiancee and I found a web page for a
jewelry designer in Oregon who was mentioned on soc.culture.celtic and who
could take a custom abstract celtic pattern and make wedding rings to
order. But now I've lost the web address. Does anyone know someone who
could make custom wedding bands from a celtic pattern?
A:As a maker of a wide range of 'celtic' knotwork ring designs, I
probably shouldn't do this, but I am about to debunk a lot of the
mystique that people have imagined for these designs:
First of all, it wasn't the Celts who started the design style. The
Celts as a people existed in pre-Roman times and were very good at
making jewellery using twisted and woven metal wires. They were fond
of spirals and mazes ( the 'Greek' key pattern ), of designs based on
animals, and did produce some beautiful art forms with spirals and
'paisley' like designs, but not in the interlaced style we associate
with 'celtic' knotwork.
This style appears to have originated sometime in the Dark Ages,
post-Roman, possibly in the 'Celtic' areas north and west of
Romanised Britain - Hibernia (Ireland) or Caledonia, etc., (Scotland).
We mainly know of the style and call it 'celtic' because it was
associated with the Celtic church monasteries of the 6th - 8th century
and beautifully used in the creation of illuminated manuscripts such
as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells. The peoples and
artists involved were the Scots (Irish!) and the Picts (Scottish) and
inhabitants of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
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