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The Celts are an ancient people, who almost certainly came from India many thousands of years ago. After getting to Italy, they made their way north-east through France to the United Kingdom. The Gauls were dominant in France by the time the Romans got there a little more than two thousand years ago, but the Celts were rock-solid in the UK.

In those days, the Celts lived all around the UK, but the Roman invasion pushed them back into the extremities of the land. As the Romans defeated the Celts in south-east Britain, the tribes either moved to Scotland or Wales or they mixed with the Roman invaders.

British Celts were well-known for their skin modifications, which is the modern terminology for tattoos and body art. The Celts and the Picts were body painters extraodinnaire. However, that was before Christianity. After Christianity came to the UK, the Celtic Cross became an vital symbol of Celtic symbology.

However, there are other Celtic symbols as well. The Welsh dragon is a Celtic symbol too. The Celts believed in fairies, so fairies are also Celtic symbols. The legends of King Arthur and the knights of the round table are also Celtic, as is Avalon and Camelot, no matter what the English tell you.

Ireland is also a prominent Celtic country and numerous Celtic symbols come from there as well, The famous Claddagh Ring is a typical Celtic design – the never-ending strings or ropes of time. Druids are also a powerful symbol of Celtic culture and the druids held oak trees in high esteem.

Retro is a big thing in modern fashion as people are beginning to disbelieve the myth that times will always be better. Young people are searching back for a restarting point, but as that is hard to find, they are picking up on symbols of their history. For lots of people of British origin, this is Celtic.

For others, it is just the romanticism of Celtic folklore. The Mabignogion, fairies, druids, dragons, King Arthur and the knights of the round table are all powerful images in peoples’ subconscious. People like to fantasise about the supernatural in these days of the cold, calculating computers, which govern our lives.

If you want to have a Celtic tattoo, you are almost certainly of Celtic descent and so you will already have a concept of the sort of tattoo that you want to have. It may be a decent idea to look for a tattoo artist who has knowledge of Celtic traditions and Celtic tattoos. This way, you may be more certain of the authenticity of your tattoo, if you are not au fe with Celtic images or tattoos.

Celtic tattoos could be classed as tribal tattoos – north-estern European tribal tattoos, but what most people do not know is that Britain was called that because its peoples wore body art and the Scottish Picts were known as that because they wore skin paint. The Celts were among the first to use body art, but absolutely not the only ones.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on quite a lot of subjects, but is at present involved with anchor tatoos. If you would like to know more go to our web site at White Ink Tatoo.

There are trends in tattooing, just like there are in jewellery, hairstyles and most other items and one of the rising trends is flower tattoos. This has much to do with the fact that more and more women like tattoos these days than ever before particularly in the Developed world. The good things about flower tattoos is that you do not have to modify them if you become divorced and their significance is not blatant.

Flower tattoos can have a subtle meaning or no meaning at all, depending on the whim of the wearer. If you opt to think that flowers have a extraordinary significance, then every type of flower or each arrangement of flowers may mean something different as well. ‘Say it with flowers’ is an old marketing slogan.

So, what do flower tattoos mean? Well, every nationality or each continent might understand something else by different flowers but here we will take a look at what many tattoo artists and tattooees say is intended by flower tattoos.

In general, flower tattoos conjure up thoughts of nature, airiness, light and gentility. Flowers remind us of life and even life despite adversity. ‘Per Ardua Ad Astra’ as the Royal Air Force saying goes. Who does not look for the first snowdrops or crocuses in the spring as a signal that the winter is drawing to a close?

If you think about the meaning of the colour of roses, it may help you pick what colour flower tattoo you want. For instance, a white flower may stand for clean living, purity, modesty or chastity. Red might mean the opposite or at the very least passionate. Yellow has the meaning of friendship or ‘friendly’ in roses. A quick search on Google will reveal the meaning of dozens of rose colours.

We all have our idea of what roses mean in the Developed world, but the same sort of meaning is attributed to the waterlily or the Lotus Blossom in the East. The Lotus Blossom has the additional meaning of good fortune, peace and tranquility. In other parts of the world, the Acacia flower denotes love and friendship

In Ireland, the Shamrock is the plant of good luck and numerous people of Irish descent wear a shamrock tattoo on their arm. Other well-liked flower tattoos in the West are Violets, which are said to represent a love of home, hearth and garden, because it is an old plant that often grew in cottages and hedgerows.

The Iris is said to symbolize wisdom and perception and the Magnolia a love of nature and, in particular, flowers themselves. The favourite flower tattoo in Wales is the Daffodil, the national flower of Wales. If you are not certain what meaning you would like to express with a flower tattoo, why not make up a posy of your favourite flowers and have that tattooed on?

Flower tattoos are better than words or the more traditional tattoos like anchors, because their meaning is ambiguous and you never need regret having the tattoo done, if you undergo a radical change in your life.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on quite a lot of topics, but is currently involved with the Barcode Tatoo. If you would like to know more go to our website at White Ink Tatoo.