Gaelic Love Knot Is A Romantic Gift For The One You Love

Friendship Loyalty Love in beautiful Gaelic language around a Celtic love knot

Gaelic Love is a rare art design loaded with romantic meaning and ancient appeal. The words crowning the beautiful Celtic love knot are "Friendship Loyalty Love" an ancient Irish meaning for the Claddagh ring. Back in the day, Celtic love knots were tied together and given as gifts to show one's affections so as you can see, this design has a love of historical and romantic meaning.

Gaelic Love is truly one of our most gorgeous shirts created for St. Patrick's Day but as with most of our shirts, Gaelic Love is very wearable any time of the year and makes a terrific gift for the one you love.

Gaelic Love is available in all sorts of shirt styles for men and women and look great on our white shirts as well as our dark colored shirts too. We have a beautiful Gaelic Love poster available that is really a wonderful wall hanging that can be even framed if you wish. For the money, you can't get a more beautiful and meaningful gift than Gaelic Love.

History of Celtic Knots

The use of interlace patterns had its origins in the artwork of the late Roman Empire. Knot patterns first appeared in the third and fourth centuries AD and can be seen in Roman floor mosaics of that time. Interesting developments in the artistic use of interlaced knot patterns are found in Byzantine architecture and book illumination, Coptic art, Celtic art, Islamic art, Medieval Russian book illumination, Ethiopian art, and European architecture and book illumination.

Examples of plait work (a woven, unbroken cord design) predate knotwork designs in several cultures around the world.  The style is most commonly associated with the Celtic lands, but it was also practiced extensively in England and was exported to Europe by Irish and Northumbrian monastic activities on the continent. In modern times Celtic Art is popularly thought of in terms of national identity and therefore specifically Irish, Scottish or Welsh.