Interlaced Cross Circle Gem Pendant - Pewter

Product Description: This Interlaced Cross Circle Gem pendant is made from lead-free pewter and is supplied with either a red or blue gem. The gem pendant is supplied on a waxed cord. The pendant is mounted on an information card, which has spiral design images on the front and on the reverse describes about Celtic art, spirals and interlacing designs.

Information: Celtic artists worked with stone, wood, metal and paint in a style characterised by its abstract nature, balance of form, delicacy, brightness of colour and most of all by its spirals and interlacing.

Prior to the advent of Christianity in Britain this style was applied in three main areas:

a) In carvings on stone monuments for magical purposes.

b) In the fashioning of fine metal jewellery and bright enamels, to adorn the warrior and his horse and chariot.

c) In warpaint, which featured symbols in blue woad.

The spiral is the natural form of growth. In every culture past and present it has become a symbol of eternal life. Spirals are drawn anti-clockwise to symbolise involutionary energy and clockwise for evolutionary energy.