But not all symbols are so well recognized. In decorating, many common motifs, which show up repeatedly in fabrics, tiles and decorative arts, mean something. But I’ll bet my eyeballs that nine ...

With so much diversity, it must seem odd to think of advertising as having a common set of motifs -- symbols, images and themes. Actually, the motifs used in most advertisements are drawn from a ...

"The motif appears to have first been used in Eurasia, as early as 7,000 years ago, perhaps representing the movement of the sun through the sky… as a symbol of wellbeing in ancient societies ...

so the symbol may have come from ancient Persia. Another key artefact is a 13th-century copper coin with the hares motif on one side, and on the other, names of two Mongol leaders and Islamic ...

as the decorator Roberta Beverly Kennon simplified the flower and its emerging fruit to a repeating motif of outlines. Stylization was cutting edge expression in 1902, part of the development of ...

This was in 2018. Temel, now 24, has since inked hundreds of customers with deq motifs and symbols from the small one-room studio she opened in November 2021 in the Sur district in Diyarbakır’s ...

Rather, it is an emanation of a different essence, from the other side of reality. Light serves as the symbol of good and the beautiful, of all that is positive. The difference between light and ...