Celtic Design Tattoos

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Celtic design tattoos have proven to be extremely popular over time due to the timeless, graceful beauty of their designs , many of which date back thousands of years, but still lend themselves particularly well to body art.

The historical Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe and covering a wide range of lands: as far west as Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula, as far east as Galatia (central Anatolia), and as far north as Scotland.

By the early centuries AD, following the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations of Germanic peoples, Celtic culture had become restricted to the British Isles, with the Continental Celtic languages extinct by the mid-1st millennium AD.

Most descriptions of Celtic societies record them as being divided into three main groups: a warrior aristocracy; an intellectual class including professions such as druids, poets, and jurists; and then everyone else.

The Celts were highly skilled in visual arts and Celtic art produced a lot of intricate and beautiful metalwork, some examples of which have been preserved by their distinctive burial rites.

The development of Christianity in Ireland and Britain brought an early medieval renaissance of Celtic art between 400 and 1200, developing many of the styles now thought of as typically Celtic, the most well known example of this being the Celtic Cross – supposedly a combination of a Christian cross with the sun, which was worshipped by the druids., although the symbol does have older, pre-Christian origins.

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