heart motifs
Love-shaped decorative patterns
Heart motifs are decorative heart shapes used as design elements in art, fashion, textiles, and crafts.
The stylized heart symbol—two curved lobes meeting at a point—appears across cultures as shorthand for love and affection: The wallpaper featured tiny heart motifs, heart motifs scattered across the fabric.
Common in Valentine's Day decorations, jewelry, and romantic imagery.
- romanceLove and its excitement
- loveIntense fond attachment
- I love youDeepest affection expressed
- love lettersRomantic written messages
- Valentine's DayHoliday for lovers
candy hearts · affection · embroidery · cross stitch · fashion · religious iconography · graphic design · Renaissance art · Victorian era · ex-voto · metalwork · wood carving · playing cards · filigree · greeting cards · folk traditions · lockets · charm bracelet
- Valentinesvalentines, hearts, red roses, love notes, be mine
- heart in art
- folk craftsbasketry, basket weaving, quilting, quilts, embroidery
- Pennsylvania HeritagePennsylvania Dutch, hex signs, barn stars, German settlers, redware
- Shoujo AnimeSailor Moon, magical girl, ribbons, hearts, big eyes
- folk patternshex signs, kente, kente cloth, mudcloth, kilim