Silver Celtic Jewelry

Silver Irish Celtic Jewelry

The sterling silver Irish Celtic jewelry is one of the most popular genres of sterling silver specialty jewelry. It is full of all kinds of symbols with great meanings and even cross over symbolism.

Celtic jewelry and Irish jewelry are considered by many to be the same genre of jewelry. Americans typically keep them separate as genre's of jewelry. Let''s look at that issue.

To start we need a history lesson. The Celts were a group of people that controlled much of western Europe. Then Rome and other enemies started to drive them west. Eventually they were driven to what is now the UK: England, Ireland and Scotland. It was in that region that they were able to have a significant time to flourish as a culture without a written language.

The Celtic culture gave way to a fractured set of cultures, England, Ireland and Scotland. The Irish jewelry was the most dominate.

Irish jewelry typically has some of the richest symbolic icons known in sterling silver jewelry. Namely the Claddagh ring, Claddagh jewelry, Shamrock jewelry and Clover jewelry. But if you look at some of these Irish jewelry pieces you will see some Celtic knot jewelry workmanship.

Celtic jewelry is primarily made of knots, weaves and other geometric designs. The trinity knot and the Celtic cross pendant are very popular Celtic symbols.

Celtic knot jewelry is really just another name for Celtic jewelry. It just carries the emphasis on the knot design so popular with Celtic jewelry. However, there is some difference between Celtic jewelry and Celtic knot jewelry. Let's look at the difference with a couple of pictures see a full and clear difference.

This is a Celtic Protection necklace. It does have some type of Celtic knot influence but is is as much a symbol as a knot.

This Celtic knot jewelry sample is clearly a Celtic knot.

Look at that Claddagh ring farther up in this blog. It has a clear Claddagh design yet it has a pair of Celtic Trinity knots behind the hands. A clear example of Irish Celtic jewelry.

Now that we understand the differences between Irish and Celtic jewelry...who cares? If you want to call both genres Irish jewelry then do it. If you prefer to call them both Celtic jewelry, so be it because you will get a very hardy selection of sterling silver Celtic jewelry or Irish jewelry by doing your shopping at the ultimate source of Irish Celtic jewelry.