Showing posts with label Claddagh ring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claddagh ring. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Irish Jewelry

Irish Jewelry

 
Of all the sterling silver Irish jewelry, the most popular is the Irish Claddagh ring. As well looking at the Claddagh Ring collection we will add a few famous Irish blessings and sayings.
 
Irish jewelry celebrates the rich Irish heritage and the Claddagh ring is a wonderful example of the rich Irish heritage.
 
 
 
May you enjoy the four greatest blessings:
Honest work to occupy you.
A hearty appetite to sustain you.
A good woman to love you.
And a wink from the God above.
 
The Irish blessings and sayings will appear interspersed in this post to add to the mood of the icon Irish jewelry.
 
 
 
May your joys be as bright as the morning,
And your sorrows merely be shadows that fade,
In the sunlight of love.
May you have enough
happiness to keep you sweet.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrows to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you happy.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
Enough friends to give you comfort.
Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish sadness.
Enough wealth to meet your needs.
And one thing more: enough
determination to make each day a more wonderful day
than the day before.
 
The Claddagh ring is a sterling silver ring with a Claddagh symbol. The Claddagh symbol is a pair of hands holding a heart which is wearing a crown.
 
 
 
Everyone of these Claddagh rings are made from sterling silver.  There are designs for men and designs for women. There are Claddagh rings for both men and women with the same design. To see a full collection of the silver Claddagh ring click on Claddagh rings.
 
 

Friday, March 2, 2012

Claddagh Ring

Claddagh Ring

The Claddagh ring is a part of Celtic jewelry, Irish jewelry and Claddagh jewelry. Celtic jewelry is one of the biggest part of speciality jewelry and the Claddagh ring is even bigger and more popular than Celtic jewelry and Irish jewelry and Claddagh jewelry combined. The Claddagh ring is really a genre unto itself.


This post will cover the Claddagh ring in some detail. First of, a Claddagh ring in its true form is a pair of hands holding a heart that is wearing a crown. These three symbols mean the following: Hands are friendship, the heart is love and lastly the crown if loyalty and fidelity. The meaning of the Claddagh symbol is deep and can mean many more things including the way the heart points. To know more about the Claddagh ring click on Claddagh ring meaning.



There are Claddagh rings that are a mix of Celtic knots and Irish Claddagh symbols like the one show directly below.


This sterling silver Claddagh ring has the full Claddagh symbol with Celtic trinity knots on either side of the symbol.



If you read up on Irish Claddagh ring meaning you would know that the Claddagh ring is truly and Irish ring, not technically a Celtic ring but because Irish jewelry falls under Celtic jewelry many call the Claddagh ring and Celtic ring.



The fact that an Irish ring like the Irish Claddagh ring or any other Irish ring falls under the Celtic jewelry genre doesn't matter. The best selection of Claddagh rings is found at Irish rings.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Celtic Jewelry For Women

Celtic Jewelry For Women

Sterling silver Celtic jewelry for women isn't all about sterling silver Celtic rings but a big part is so we will narrow down the Celtic jewelry for women to a look at Celtic rings. But keep in mind that there is a lot of of types of Celtic jewelry for women.


All of the Celtic rings we'll be looking at are all sterling silver Celtic rings. They may have very different designs and they may all have different shapes but they are all very popular sterling silver Celtic rings.



Maybe one of the reasons of the huge popularity in the silver Celtic ring is because under the Celtic ring genre you have the traditional Celtic knot rings and then you also have Celtic Claddagh rings which carries amazing meaning and symbolism.



This collection of Celtic rings from which these photographs come from is divided into traditional Celtic rings and another page for Claddagh rings, that's an indication of how large the collection of Celtic rings is at HandCraftedCollectibles.com.