Three spirals turning from one centre, carved at Newgrange more than two thousand years before the Celts.
Record, Folk and Modern are kept apart, and each one carries its source.
Triple spirals are carved at Newgrange in Ireland, about 3200 BC — more than two thousand years before the Celts. The motif returns in La Tène art and in the arms of the Isle of Man from about 1280.
No early record tells us what the spirals meant to the people who carved them.
Shops describe it as a sign of growth or progress. That reading is modern, and the triskele is not a Celtic invention.
It opens with the pencil construction, then follows the record, how people used it, and the piece we make today. Every fact in it comes from the sources on this page.
