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2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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   A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories. Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and ...

3. Hallmark Cards - Wikipedia

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   Hallmark Cards, Inc. Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce Hall, Hallmark is the oldest and largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. [3] In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts. [4] In addition to greeting cards ...

4. Fleuron (typography) - Wikipedia

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   Fleuron (typography) A fleuron ( / ˈflʊərɒn, - ən, ˈflɜːrɒn, - ən / [1] ), also known as printers' flower, is a typographic element, or glyph, used either as a punctuation mark or as an ornament for typographic compositions. Fleurons are stylized forms of flowers or leaves; the term derives from the Old French: floron ("flower"). [2]

5. Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing - Wikipedia

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   In ancient China, auspicious ornaments were often either embroidered or woven into textile and clothing. [1] They are also used on religious and ritual clothing (e.g. Daojiao fushi which is Taoist clothing [3] : 101 and Chinese Buddhist clothing) and in Xifu, Chinese opera costumes. [4] Auspicious symbols and motifs continue to be used in ...

6. Twelve Ornaments - Wikipedia

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   The Twelve Ornaments ( Chinese: 十二章; pinyin: Shí'èr zhāng) are a group of ancient Chinese symbols and designs that are considered highly auspicious. They were employed in the decoration of textile fabrics in ancient China, which signified authority and power, and were embroidered on vestments of state. [1]

7. Motif (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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   The Grammar of Ornament. Dover Publications, Revised edition (1987), ISBN 0-486-25463-1; Welch, Patricia Bjaaland. Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Turtle Publishing (2008), ISBN 0-8048-3864-X; External links. Media related to Visual motifs at Wikimedia Commons; Visual motifs (essay) Theater of Drawing