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Celtic tattoo designs

Interlaced knotwork, spirals and keys drawn in solid black line, patterns with no beginning and no end, taken from a thousand years of insular manuscripts and stone carving.

Every motif in Celtic

111 motifs, each drawn once in this style. Open a design to see it large, or follow the motif through all twenty-three styles.

What Celtic does to a motif

Endless interlaced knotwork and spirals in solid black line. The pattern has no start and no end, which is most of the point, and drawing it cleanly is genuinely hard.

The other styles

Every motif in this library is drawn in all twenty-three. Compare the same subject across them.

Make your own celtic design

These are reference designs. In the AI Tattoos app you can generate your own version of this motif, restyle it with one tap, and see it on a photo of your own skin with the depth-aware Studio before you book anything.

About these designs

This is a reference library, not a shop. Nothing here is for sale and no tattoo can be ordered from this page. Take a design to a professional tattoo artist, who will adapt it to your body, your placement and their own hand. Meanings attached to motifs are cultural and vary between traditions; where a motif belongs to a living tradition, read about it before wearing it.