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Celtic Spirit Circle Tattoo Design
Imitating the roiling waters of the moment of creation, this ancient cloisonne pattern found on a chalice now kept in the National Museum of Ireland captures in spirals the inspiration and creative...
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Lovers Celtic Knot Tattoo Design
The Celtic love knot, symbol of eternal love. The design of this mandala conveys the intimate relationship of lovers, ever united in their dreams. Shown here on a back and shoulder blade, this design...
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Four Season Tree of Life Tattoo with Celtic Design
The four seasons of the year depicted in a Celtic tree of life, rooted in traditional knotwork.
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Shooting Star Tattoo with Celtic Design
A shooting star is actually a meteorite burning up as it passes dramatically through our Earth's atmosphere. Sightings of them have always been considered harbingers of good fortune.
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European Dragon Tattoo with Celtic Design
A Medieval style European dragon in two version. He flies free, or tries to escape from a ring of Celtic knotwork, making a strong and complete circular tattoo design. The unusual feathered wings and...
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Double Diamond Knot Band Celtic Tattoo Design
The double diamond is an ancient nautical knot that is a favorite used to form a decorative loop at the end of a lanyard. It is variously known as the double diamond, Carrick bend, and Josephine knot....
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Knight's Celtic Cross Tattoo Design
Patterned after a cross standing in Scotland, this knotwork uniquely weaves around a Templar knight's sword.
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Sea Monster Tattoo with Hablingbo Stone Viking Design
Ornate stylized sea monsters from the Hablingbo picture stone in Gotland, Sweden. Slender and shown in profile, they make a dramatic anklet as shown or would be equally powerful enlarged to an armband.
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Poppies Tattoo with Pictish Moon Design
A symbolic tattoo of the California state flower, the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, united with a moon crescent of knotwork from the 6th century Rosemarkie Stone, a Pictish stone from...
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Druid Tree of Life Tattoo with Celtic Band Design
The gnarled and twisted branches of a sacred tree, sentinel in the Gods' Wood, with roots that tie into a Celtic band, to make an anklet or arm band that completes the sacred circle.
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Celtic Star Tattoo with Full Leg Wrap Design
A most ambitious full leg wrap, which has won several awards in tattoo shows in Europe. Chosen for its Danish wearer because of the star pattern formed where the knotwork meets, it makes a bold...
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Surf Babe Tattoo with Celtic Wave Design
Designed to grace the arm of a beautiful surf babe, these interlocked Celtic triskel and spirals embody the swirling power of the sea, and the elegance of those who skim across its curling edge like...
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12th Century Dragon Tattoo Design
A charming dragon found illuminating a choir book produced in the Netherlands in the late 12th century. In the medieval times dragons were not a fanciful thought, they were considered real and were...
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Saxon Sutton Hoo Belt Buckle Tattoo Design
The 7th c. Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is one of the most magnificent archaeological finds in England. It dates to a period that is on the margin between myth, legend, and historical...
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Queen Celtic Pictish Spiral Tattoo Design
Single, double, and triple spirals in a profusion of Pictish and Celtic swirls. Making a tapestry of living motion.
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Deer Dream Backpiece Tattoo Design
A Pagan enchantment, channeling the forest God Cernunnos, celebrated in the ancient Celtic and Gallo-Roman religions. Antlers spanning the shoulders, a DNA-esque growing spiral of a vegetative form,...
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WAC Pallas Athena Tattoo Design
The badge of honor of the WACs, the Womens Army Corps. Their service to their country earned them the right to wear the bust of Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization,...
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Soldier Celtic Cross Tattoo Design
Evening's long shadows became the night, in the small Irish graveyard where I made the grave rubbing that became this tattoo pattern. Memorial to a soldier who had fought and died in a foreign land....
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Frog Tattoo with Poison Arrow Frog Design
Hidden in the jungle leaves, one of nature's finest jewels, the poison arrow frog lurks. Sure to cause certain death if an arrow point is tipped with the secretions on its skin, nonetheless their...
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Gypsy Good Luck Mark Tattoo Design
A classic Irish knot pattern, often found painted on the wagons of the Traveler folk for good luck. A blessing for the wearer of the tattoo.
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