Talk:Celtic knot

message: how are the 8 types of knots broken down and what is the significance of each ?
http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefscelticknots.htm
This article claims that the true meanings of the knots have been lost, but that archeologists have made guesses as to the meanings of some based on the overall shape of some knots.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.95.29.212 (talk) 03:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 8 Types

message: Any closed loop - or any number of closed loops - drawn on a flat surface, no matter how many times they cross themselves and each other, can always be drawn so that each line goes under/over/under (etc) the lines that it crosses. Equivalently, the areas between the lines can always be coulored in with a black and white chequerboard effect.
:Yup. Actually, I came here to suggest that perhaps an interesting addition to the article would be a discussion of how/why celtic knots "work"... a closed loop can always be done as an over-under-over-under thing. I've seen this addressed elsewhere. Very interesting. PurpleChez (talk) 19:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under and over 

message: Shouldn't this article simply be a part of a larger article entitled "knotwork?" It seems to me that this article hardly touches on the extensive usage of knotwork by the nearby Scandinavian tribes that have deeply influenced the UK since they began invading the area, including Ireland. 
What's with the total lack of information regarding the huge amount of knotwork the Norse have used - including the so-called "Celtic Spirals" that appear on Scandinavian art from the period? 
I get the impression that the English-speaking world's impression on "knotwork" largely has to do with the Book of Kells, which was obviously a later development, though spared the flame from an "enlightened" new society for obvious reasons. 
This article also goes so far out as to assume that knotwork came from Egypt of all places, without even bothering to examine the extensive use by the northernly Germanic tribes right next to the isles that had so deeply influenced not only the ethnic make up but also cultural make up of these areas. :bloodofox: 03:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think you are right, it would be good to expand this article, or link it to other articles on knotwork. In addition to the Scandinavian knotwork tradition that you mention, there are interesting developments in Islamic art, Armenia, Ethiopia, and (surely)others. (According to James Trilling in his book The Language of Ornament, all of these spread and developed from a Roman source, about two thousand yeas ago.) Of course, for the expanded article, or articles, someone will have to do the work. Kwork 14:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Norse knotwork

message: I just edited a new link, which appears to be commercial so that its description was neutral and stuck it at the bottom of the link list, where I believe new links are meant (policy, no?)to be added.  After doing so, I notice that there has been a bit of to-and-fro over this link in the past.  Given the extensive resources proferred by some of the other links on this page, is there a case for the inclusion of this link at all - it appears to be an attempt to gain customers?  It has been a couple of years since I last edited Wikipedia, so apologies if this is wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.95.29.212 (talk) 03:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link conflict 

message: Bollocks. It's Germanic, and the fact that it is, and the fact that the quite correct assumption that it is was met with the sneering reply of 'whatever' only proves this page is nothing more than a page dedicated to lying romantic Celtic claptrap. -- 20:48, 11 September 2019‎ 146.199.159.246
:Sorry, dude, but Anglo-Saxons elaborated their own version of "Animal style" interlace (which had spread among peoples of a number of different ethnic/linguistic affiliations).  They did not bring pure abstract knotwork to its highest stage of complexity and artistic technique -- the Irish did that.  If you want to influence this article, then you need to bring forth reputable sources, instead of making flat unsupported assertions which may contain a certain kernel of truth, but which are obviously false in the oversimplified and dogmatic form in which you state them... AnonMoos (talk) 08:24, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 2019

message: "Stone Celtic crosses, such as this, are a major source of knowledge regarding Celtic knot design." I'm no expert but the current picture, :File:Bromptoncross.jpg, shows a bog-standard Victorian copy of a Celtic cross in Brompton Cemetery (founded 1840), which is not an authentic source. Either a picture of a genuine medieval Celtic cross should be used, or the caption changed. Dave.Dunford (talk) 13:49, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The caption is nonsense. Graveyards in Ireland are full of crosses like this one, all dating from the last century. Before the development of the modern taste for lower-profile marble gravestones, they were the standard crosses for better-off burials (the poor did with a simple stone slab, timber cross or nothing). The pattern was just random decoration chosen by the headstone maker. Scartboy (talk) 18:47, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading caption 

message: They are also white supremecist symbols.  Look at any white prison gang and they're tattooed in all kinds of this knotwork all over.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.65.91.78 (talk) 10:48, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  White supremecist/racist symbol 

message: Is there another meaning for a Celtic Knot other than art? Historygeek55590 (talk) 10:31, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another meaning?