Ornaments

thumb|English oak acorn thumb|Acorns of the willow oak in South Carolina (from small to large, counterclockwise from center): Q. phellos (willow oak), Q. falcata (southern red oak; top right), Q. alba (white oak), and Q. coccinea (scarlet oak). Scale bar at upper right is 1 cm.

Wallpaper is used in interior decoration to cover the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. It is usually sold in rolls and is applied onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets.

thumb|340px|Stone relief with arabesques of tendrils, palmettes and half-palmettes in the [[Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria]] thumb|Part of a 15th-century ceramic panel from Samarkand ([[Uzbekistan) with white calligraphy on a blue arabesque background]]The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foliate ornament, used in the Islamic world, typically using leaves, derived from stylised half-palmettes,

decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object

thumb|Neolithic triple-spiral symbol

thumb|upright|Cornucopia of a Roman statue of Livia as [[Fortuna, 42-52 AD, marble, Altes Museum, Berlin ]] thumb|Cornucopia, part of a Roman statue, Archaeological Museum A. Salinas, Palermo, Sicily, Italy In classical antiquity, the cornucopia (; ), also called the horn of plenty, is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts. In Greek, it was called the horn of Amalthea (), after Amalthea, a nurse of Zeus, who is often part of stories of the horn's origin.

thumb|Fleur-de-lis thumb|Arms of the Kings of France blazoned Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the (stylized) shape of a lily (in French, and mean and respectively). Most notably, the fleur-de-lis is depicted on multiple flags of Quebec and on the traditional coat of arms of France that was used from the High Middle Ages until the French Revolution in 1792, and then again in brief periods in the 19th century. This design still represents France and the House of Bourbon in the form o

decorative border motif constructed from a continuous line popular in Chinese, Greek, and Roman art

ornamental motif based on a characteristic Mediterranean plant with jagged leaves, Acanthus spinosus

thumb|A bed with a duvet

[[File:Regular_hexagon_as_intersection_of_two_triangles.png|thumb|A regular hexagram, [[List_of_regular_polytopes_and_compounds#Two_dimensional_compounds|{6}[2{3}]{6}]], can be seen as a compound composed of an upwards (blue here) and downwards (pink) facing equilateral triangle, with their intersection as a regular hexagon (in green).]]

thumb|Page in which appear various illustrations of palmettes, from A handbook of Ornament by Franz Meyer (1898) thumb|Etruscan civilization|Etruscan architectural plaque with palmettes, from late 4th century BC, painted terracotta, in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City]] The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree, like palmyra leaf. It has a far-reaching history, originating in ancient Egypt with a subsequent development through the art of most of Eurasia, often in forms that bear relativ

frame for a painted or engraved design

round, stylized flower design

Crimean Tatar ornament

right|thumb|Interlaced triquetra which is a trefoil knot The triquetra ( ; from the Latin adjective triquetrus "three-cornered") is a triangular figure composed of three interlaced arcs, or (equivalently) three overlapping vesicae piscis lens shapes. It is used as an ornamental design in architecture, and in medieval manuscript illumination (particularly in the Insular tradition). Its depiction as interlaced is common in Insular ornaments from about the 7th century. In this interpretation, the triquetra represents the topologically simplest possible knot. thumb|Comparison of associated Reuleau

thumb|Chintz jacket and neckerchief with glazed printed cotton petticoat. 1770–1800. MoMu, Antwerp. Chintz () is a woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textile that originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th century. The cloth is printed with designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours, typically on a light, plain background.

In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu () is a symbol or diagram () representing taiji () in both its monist (wuji) and its dualist (yin and yang) forms. A taijitu in application provides a deductive and inductive theoretical model. Such a diagram was first introduced by Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty in his Taijitu shuo ().

thumb|An engine-turned (guilloché) watch dial made by Derek Pratt (watchmaker)|Derek Pratt and rejected by him due to imperfections that are almost invisible to the bare eye. thumb|250px|Ancient Roman art|Roman guilloche around a scene with Diana the Huntress, late 2nd century AD, mosaic, Bardo National Museum, [[Tunis, Tunisia]] Guilloché (), or guilloche (), is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate, and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name. Engine turning machines may include the

decorative element of bands or portions of other motifs looped, braided, and knotted in complex geometric patterns

V-shaped insignia used in various fields

thumb|Quatrefoil above the west door of Croyland Abbey showing in [[relief scenes from the life of Saint Guthlac]] thumb|Quatrefoil window at the St. Petrus parish church in Peterslahr, Germany A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil) is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter. It is found in art, architecture, heraldry and traditional Christian symbolism. The word 'quatrefoil' means "four leaves", from the Latin , "four", plus , "leaf"; the term refers specifically to a four-leafed clover, but

right|thumb|300px|The Triumph of Death, or the Three Fates, Flanders|Flemish tapestry with a typical mille-fleurs background, thumb|The birds and animals at inconsistent scales are a feature of the style Millefleur, millefleurs or mille-fleur (French mille-fleurs, literally "thousand flowers") refers to a composition with many different small flowers and plants in the background, usually against a green ground, as though growing in grass. It is primarily associated with European tapestry during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1550, but mostly appears around 1480

mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern

thumb|Carved and inlaid Late Baroque supraporte in Toruń, Poland

thumb|upright=1.2|Girih pattern with inlaid floral decoration from :en:Shah-i-Zinda|Shah-i-Zinda in [[Samarkand, Uzbekistan]]

150px|thumb|right|Architectural trefoil

thumb|right|Nakshi Kantha|Traditional kantha stitching in [[Bangladesh]] Kantha (Bengali: কাঁথা; Hindi: कान्था), also spelled kanta or qanta, is a type of embroidery craft in Bangladesh and eastern regions of India, particularly in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Odisha. thumb|Antique quilted kantha inscribed with the meditative chant Ram Krishna, courtesy the Wovensouls collection, Singapore In Odisha, old saris are stacked on each other and hand-stitched to make a thin piece of cushion. This is normally used above a bed cushion or instead of a cushion. Kantha saris are traditi

interlaced knotwork in Islamic art

form of decoration dominated by spiralling scrolls

architecture essay by Adolf Loos

thumb|Cista Depicting a Dionysian Revel and Perseus with Medusa's Head The Walters Art Museum.

luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book covers such as leather, velvet, or other cloth

thumb|300px|Typical early English strapwork of 1589, detail from the Peter Carew (died 1580)#Commemoration|monument to Sir Gawen Carew in [[Exeter Cathedral]] thumb|French stucco, scrollwork and strapwork by Rosso Fiorentino in the [[Palace of Fontainebleau, 1530s]] In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms. These may loosely imitate leather straps, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings, and often interwoven in a geometric pattern. In early examples there may or may not be three-dimensionality, eit

artistic motif of a urinating boy

pear- or pine cone-shaped motif in ornament

thumb|upright|Moresque ornament print by Peter Flötner. thumb|upright|Mannerist grotesque ornament drawing by the Dutch painter and architect [[Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1609), of around 1604. The figures of the fauns at bottom, and almost the dragons at top, are moresques in the figure sense.]] Moresque is an obsolete alternative term to "Moorish" in English, and in the arts has some specific meanings. By itself, the word is used to describe the stylized plant-based forms of tendrils and leaves found in ornament and decoration in the applied arts in Renaissance Europe that are derived fro

thumb|280px|Plate with gadrooned background from the Meissen porcelain [[Swan Service, ca. 1738]] Gadrooning is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in relief in a series. In furniture and other decorative arts, it is an ornamental carved band of tapered, curving and sometimes alternating concave and convex sections, usually diverging obliquely either side of a central point, often with rounded ends vaguely reminiscent of flower petals. Gadrooning, derived from Roman sarcophagi and other antiquities, was widely used during the Italian Renaissance, and in the classicising phas

in art and architecture is a real or depicted artistically assembled display of weaponry and other militaria

bedding accessory consisting of a flat and gathered or pleated piece of fabric, often matching the bedspread, attached to the rails or springs of a bed.Used to cover the bed frame and the bed legs. Also used for decoration.

style of vegetal ornament popular in Ottoman decorative arts of the 16th century and art movement associated with it

scroll pattern used in architectural decoration

a type of embroidered quilt

thumb|Close view of a common teal showing the vermiculation pattern in its feathers. thumb|Detail showing a "vermiculated" background on a chasse (casket)|chasse reliquary casket thumb|Architectural vermiculation in Paris Vermiculation is a surface pattern of dense but irregular lines, so called from the Latin meaning "little worm" because the shapes resemble worms, worm casts, or worm tracks in mud or wet sand. The word may be used in a number of contexts for patterns that have little in common. The adjective vermiculated is more often used than the noun.

is a type of ornamental finial used on Japanese railings. Gibōshi bridge ornaments resemble an onion; the ends are bulbous and typically come to a point. It is believed that the shape of gibōshi was from hōju (; "sacred gem" or "cintāmaṇi") which is used to decorate roofs. They are often found on bridges in Japanese gardens, temples and shinto shrines.

medallion-like motif, often octagonal, typical of traditional hand-woven carpets from Central and West Asia

thumb|A geometrical hexafoil

decorative top of a minaret, or Ottoman military standard

thumb|Socarrat representing an ox Socarrat are fired clay tiles covered with a white base and generally painted in red and black. These were placed between beams and joists in buildings’ ceilings and eaves. Their origin is typically medieval but subsequent production of these objects is known, mainly in Valencia. There are other words to name objects with similar function such as rajola, maó prim, atovó or cairó. The first register about its existence was likely in 1604, when D. Feliciano de Figueroa, Bishop of Segorbe, refers to a group of roof and wall tiles written and coloured with koranic

symbol; hexafoil surrounded by a circle