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    Celtic Claddagh Jewelry: The legendary origins

    Posted on October 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
    What follows is the legend of how the first Celtic Claddagh Jewelry appeared on earth. Once there was a great Irish prince Ailill who fell in love with a beautiful young girl called Lissadel, but she was of low birth so his family did not...

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    Secrets of Celtic Knotwork Jewelry

    Posted on July 16, 2010 | 8 Comments
    While Celtic knot work jewelry design had it’s roots in the spiral and trumpet designs of the ancient Celtic and Neolithic past it emerged in the form with which we are now familiar in Celtic knot work jewelry masterpieces such as the Tara Brooch and in the magnificent Celtic Insular Gospel manuscripts produced in Irish monastic settlements during the 6th and 7th century AD.

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