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Celtic tattoo designs- most popular choice for cuties
Celtic tattoos are growing very popularly, just like various other tattoo styles in recent decades. In particular, Celtic tattoos are quiet popular amongst girls not only as a result of special nature of the Celtic culture, but also for the richness of its history.





Celtic heritage existed hundreds and thousands years back. In ancient times, Celtic people were well known generally for their skills and artwork metal, jewelry and also the weapons. Celtic people had been warriors as well, regarded by Romans as the fierce fighters. Most of these Celtic tattoo design and styles come from Ireland, where you will find evidence of Celtic culture and history very strong. All through the country, you will see number of illustrations and evidences of various Celtic crosses and Celtic symbols. However the style of Celtic tattooing came up throughout the era when metal work and stone work was very popular.



In ancient times, tattoos were as popular as they are today, but for various different reasons. Today people wear them as a fashion but the ancients wore these tattoos as a war paint permanently. These tattoos were designed in such a way so as to instill as much fear in the minds of their enemy as possible. During that time warriors fought hand to hand and in the battle field warriors showed off their chests just in order to make sure that their tattoos are clearly visible to the enemy. All these tattoo designs symbolized fearlessness and toughness whenever faced with any kind of danger. Tattoos were so designed to give identification similar to soldiers wear dogs tags today.


Few of the very popular tattoo choices in Celtic tattoo designs are listed below. Celtic people once covered a huge area of Europe and they had their own culture and languages. The symbols and images that were used in those olden days are incorporated into Celtic tattoos that are used today and are highly popular. This Celtic people worshipped goddesses and gods, land, animals and since they were exposed more to Christianity, generally their shapes and symbols included cresses and stars. One of the main reasons for adapting Christianity was to avoid the conflicts with the Christian beliefs. But all these adapted elements remains and are seen in traditional Celtic tattoos.





  1. Celtic Knot designs-
    Even though most of the traditional Celtic images are copied in tattoos, possibly one of the recognizable and in demand tattoo is the knot. Knots represents interwoven vines and they are so arranged that it forms a particular shape, for instance a heart, but these shapes can be anything a person can think of, right from circles to the more complicated star shape. Animals were quiet important to the Celtic people, butterflies, geese and dogs. Butterflies were specially held up with a very high esteem due of their beauty by the Celts. Dogs symbolized loyalty as well as good luck while the eagles were linked with death, so were ravens and few other birds. Horses were considered as sacred by the Celts and thus tattoo depicting a horse was linked to magic and mystery. In Celtic art a tattoo of bear symbolized power while on other hand the dragon was associated with both magic and power. The number three, is also always been featured highly in these Celtic designs and is usually found somewhere in the tattoo design, sometimes it is even hidden deeply within.


  2. Cross symbol-
    The Celtic cross without a doubt is perhaps the most recognizable and popular of all Celtic designs and is perfect choice for girls tattoos. They are considered extremely spiritual in their nature and very frequently Celts will have this cross design to depict or as a proclamation of their cultural roots. Another design style is the Celtic tree of life, it is self-explanatory. It is designed in the same style as the cross and the knot, but generally it is composed of various interweaving lines that form up the branches around a tree trunk. This represents the beginning as well as the end of life and even the eternal nature of the all the world that we live.
    Celtic designs are very beautiful when integrated into a tattoo and you will find host of different choices that are suited to both female and male. Almost every tattoo shop or artist will offer you with a wide range of Celtic tattoo designs.





Celtic art and culture in the form of tattoo designs is often seen as around the arms or even on the wrist. More recently these Celtic designs are tattooed largely on the lower back. Celtic art is generally done using black ink and all the lines can be both thick as well as very thick. Therefore, all the Celtic tattoo designs look beautiful on women, and it has become the foremost choice of many feminine beauties today.


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