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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 understood by the Chinese people for thousand of years ...

  3. Sashiko - Wikipedia

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    Sashiko (刺し子, lit. 'little stabs') is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery or stitching used for the decorative and/or functional reinforcement of cloth and clothing. Owing to the relatively cheap nature of white cotton thread and the abundant nature of cheap, indigo -dyed blue cloth in historical Japan, sashiko has a distinctive ...

  4. Leaf - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Free, lateral As in Hibiscus. ... or minor veins and the patterns of areoles (see Leaf Architecture Working Group, ...

  5. If You See a Purple Porch Light, This Is What It Means - AOL

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    Here's the meaning of purple porch lights. The post If You See a Purple Porch Light, This Is What It Means appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  6. Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese medicine A prescription section of a pharmacy in Nanning, Guangxi, China, selling prepackaged Chinese and Western medicine (left) and Chinese medicinal herbs (right) Chinese name Traditional Chinese 中醫 Simplified Chinese 中医 Literal meaning "Chinese medicine" Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngyī Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄧ Wade–Giles Chung 1 -i 1 IPA ...

  7. Mandala - Wikipedia

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    A mandala ( Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanized :maṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism ...

  8. Psychedelic art - Wikipedia

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    Concert posters, album covers, liquid light shows, liquid light art, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling colour patterns of psychedelic hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of ...

  9. Pattern - Wikipedia

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    Pattern. For other uses, see Pattern (disambiguation). A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, [1] or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated like a wallpaper design.