Love Symbols

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Rose and Ash Device preview
Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Rose and Ash Device

The rose holds beauty, love, and memory in a recognisable form while ash shows what form eventually becomes, creating a deliberate contrast between what is cherished, what is lost, and what remains.

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CommercialDeathLoveMemoryHistorically supported
Red Tulip preview
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Red Tulip

Late nineteenth-century flower dictionaries gave the red tulip the particularly direct message “declaration of love,” distinguishing it from generic, yellow and variegated tulips.

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CommercialLoveFaithHistorically supported
Honeysuckle preview
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Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle was an emblem of generous and devoted affection in late nineteenth-century floriography, its twining growth providing a natural image of close and enduring attachment.

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CommercialLoveFaithHistorically supported
Wisteria preview
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Wisteria

Wisteria was a recognised nineteenth-century ornamental climber, but the familiar meaning “welcome” is not securely evidenced in the major Victorian flower dictionary checked here and is better treated as a later association.

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CommercialOriginal Meaning UnknownLoveHistorically supported
Interlock Circle Mark preview
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Interlock Circle Mark

Two circles remain complete while sharing part of the same space, giving this mark a simple language for relationship, family, love, balance, and identities that connect without disappearing into one another.

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CommercialBalanceFamilyLoveHistorically supported
Triangle Union Mark preview
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Triangle Union Mark

Separate triangles become stronger as a composition when their edges meet, making this mark a contemporary emblem of family, love, balance, cooperation, and identities that can unite without becoming indistinguishable.

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CommercialBalanceFamilyLoveHistorically supported
Twin Circle Frame preview
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Twin Circle Frame

Two equal circles share a frame without becoming the same form, creating a quiet emblem for family, partnership, love, peace, and the balance between closeness and independent identity.

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CommercialBalanceFamilyLoveHistorically supported
Heart Tablet preview
Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Heart Tablet

Framed like an inscription meant to be kept, the heart becomes a place for what matters personally: love, loyalty, faith, memory, devotion, or the name and story that someone chooses to carry forward.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported
Lock Motifs Emblem preview
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Lock Motifs Emblem

A lock does more than keep something out: it defines what is valued enough to secure, making this emblem about protection, privacy, trust, attachment, and controlled access.

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CommercialProtectionIdentityLoveHistorically supported
Rose Tablet preview
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Rose Tablet

Placed within a tablet-like frame, the rose feels less like decoration and more like a dedication: a familiar tattoo and memorial flower for love, devotion, beauty, remembrance, hope, and the memories we choose to preserve.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported
Gebo preview
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Gebo

Gebo is best approached through the idea of a gift: something given creates a relationship between giver and receiver. Modern symbolism develops that exchange into reciprocity, generosity, partnership, love, and balanced commitment.

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CommercialLoveBalanceFamilyHistorically supported
Pelican in Her Piety preview
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Pelican in Her Piety

Medieval bestiaries told of a pelican piercing her own breast to revive her young with blood, turning the bird into a powerful Christian image of sacrifice, love and redemption.

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CommercialCompassionLoveFaithHistorically supported
Conjunction Seal preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Conjunction Seal

A contemporary seal inspired by alchemical coniunctio, the union of paired principles often pictured through chemical marriage, here focused on balance, integration and transformation.

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CommercialBalanceTransformationLoveHistorically supported
White Queen Sign preview
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White Queen Sign

A contemporary sign based on the alchemical White Queen, an allegorical figure associated with conjunction, whitening and transformation in late medieval manuscript traditions.

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CommercialBalanceTransformationWisdomHistorically supported
Hourglass Rose Mark preview
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Hourglass Rose Mark

An hourglass beside a rose sets measured time against living beauty, creating a reminder that what is cherished is made more precious by its impermanence.

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CommercialDeathMemoryLoveHistorically supported
Red Rose preview
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Red Rose

A nineteenth-century botanical emblem of love, with period flower dictionaries specifically linking the red rose with beauty and romantic affection.

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CommercialLoveHistorically supported
Ivy preview
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Ivy

An evergreen emblem of fidelity and attachment, ivy appears in nineteenth-century flower dictionaries with meanings centred on faithfulness, friendship and enduring bonds.

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CommercialFaithLoveResilienceHistorically supported
Daffodil preview
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Daffodil

In late nineteenth-century floriography the daffodil carried the concise meaning “regard,” distinct from the related narcissus and jonquil entries found in flower dictionaries.

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CommercialLoveRenewalHopeHistorically supported
Hawthorn preview
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Hawthorn

Hawthorn was a nineteenth-century emblem of hope—more particularly a lover's hope in one period account—with its May blossom also carrying older associations with courtship and marriage.

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CommercialHopeLoveHistorically supported
Myrtle preview
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Myrtle

Myrtle was a well-established nineteenth-century floral emblem of love, reinforced by older associations with Venus and by its prominent place in Victorian bridal tradition.

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CommercialLoveFaithHistorically supported
Broken Heart Blade preview
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Broken Heart Blade

Pierced hearts already carried love and pain together in historic sailor and military flash. Breaking the heart makes the fracture explicit, turning this modern variation into an emblem for attachment that has been damaged but remains important enough to remember.

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CommercialFaithLoveResilienceHistorically supported
Heart and Blade preview
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Heart and Blade

Hearts and blades share a long history in sailor and military flash, where names and mottos often made the image personal. Without that inscription, this modern pairing leaves room for love, hurt, memory and the resolve to carry all three.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported
Rose Banner Blade preview
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Rose Banner Blade

Rose, blade and banner are all familiar parts of classic tattoo flash, but the words placed between them made each piece personal. This modern composition keeps that openness, pairing beauty with hardship and leaving space for the name, memory or promise that gives the emblem its real weight.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported
Rose Through Dagger preview
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Rose Through Dagger

A rose pierced by a dagger sets tenderness against danger in one of tattooing's most enduring visual contrasts. This modern flash composition can speak to love carried through pain, memory that survives loss, or beauty defended by strength.

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CommercialFaithLoveBalanceHistorically supported
Sacred Heart Dagger preview
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Sacred Heart Dagger

The Sacred Heart carries centuries of Christian devotion centred on divine love and suffering; the dagger belongs to a later flash vocabulary. Their modern combination makes devotion feel costly and physical: love held through pain rather than protected from it.

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CommercialFaithLoveResilienceHistorically supported
Sunflower preview
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Sunflower

Victorian flower dictionaries did not give the sunflower one universal meaning: Kate Greenaway distinguished dwarf sunflower as adoration and tall sunflower as haughtiness.

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CommercialLoveHistorically supported
Swallow Sign preview
Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Swallow Sign

A swallow in sailor tattoo tradition carries the pull of home across distance, making this sign especially suited to return, loyalty, hope, memory, and the promise of finding one's way back.

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CommercialHopeGuidanceLoveHistorically supported
Familiar Moon Device preview
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Familiar Moon Device

Historical familiars survive largely through accusations made against supposed witches, not through a neutral record of an organised religion. This modern moon-and-animal device reclaims the image around companionship, trust and keeping watch together through uncertain nights.

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CommercialFamilyProtectionGuidanceHistorically supported
Late Medieval Wounded Heart preview
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Late Medieval Wounded Heart

A pierced or bleeding heart belonged to the intense visual language of late-medieval Passion devotion, inviting contemplation of Christ's suffering, wounds, sacrifice and compassionate love.

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CommercialFaithCompassionLoveHistorically supported
Pansy preview
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Pansy

In nineteenth-century flower dictionaries, the pansy was characteristically an emblem of thought, remembrance and affectionate reflection—an association echoed by its older name, heartsease.

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CommercialMemoryLoveHistorically supported
Swallow Knife Mark preview
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Swallow Knife Mark

The swallow carries strong associations with sailors, journeys and return, while the knife belongs to the wider language of wartime flash. Combined here, they create a modern emblem for finding a way home through danger and uncertainty.

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CommercialGuidanceHopeLoveHistorically supported
Forget-Me-Not preview
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Forget-Me-Not

A nineteenth-century floral emblem of remembrance, the forget-me-not was explicitly linked with true love and enduring memory in period flower dictionaries.

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CommercialMemoryLoveFaithHistorically supported
Memory Bone Frame preview
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Memory Bone Frame

Bones form a boundary around an imagined memory, shifting human remains from a warning about death into a frame for what death cannot contain completely: name, relationship, identity, and remembrance.

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CommercialDeathMemoryIdentityHistorically supported
Mourning Blade preview
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Mourning Blade

A blade can mark danger or survival; placed in a memorial context, its hard edge becomes a way to give grief visible form. Mourning Blade is a modern emblem for memory carried forward, honouring what has been lost without pretending mourning follows one symbolic rule.

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CommercialMemoryDeathFaithHistorically supported
Black Ribbon Device preview
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Black Ribbon Device

A simple black ribbon turns private loss outward, echoing the visible mourning dress and armbands through which grief and remembrance could once be publicly recognised.

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CommercialDeathMemoryLoveHistorically supported
Tear Drop Emblem preview
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Tear Drop Emblem

Reduced to a single tear, grief becomes intimate rather than monumental: a small mark for sorrow, love, compassion, and the way remembrance can condense an entire relationship into one visible sign of absence.

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CommercialDeathCompassionMemoryHistorically supported

About love symbols

Love symbols and their researched historical, cultural, and practical relationships.

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11 matching symbols

Botanical Silhouettes — Flowers, Leaves & Plants in Simplified Nineteenth-Century Style

Botanical Silhouettes brings together 25 flowers, leaves and plants rendered as bold, simplified botanical emblems. Inspired by nineteenth-century botanical illustration and decorative arts, the collection focuses on recognisable plant forms translated into clean silhouettes suitable for engraving, cutting and print. Many of these plants also appear in historical traditions of botanical symbolism. Where a historical symbolic association is documented, individual entries should distinguish period evidence from later or modern interpretations.

7 matching symbols

Traditional Nautical Tattoo Collection

Traditional Nautical Tattoo gathers 25 symbols shaped around traditional flash language, protection motifs, bold line symbolism, and heirloom Americana composition, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

5 matching symbols

Memento Mori Mortality Symbols Collection

Memento Mori Mortality Symbols gathers 25 symbols shaped around hourglasses, candles, skull-adjacent marks, decay and renewal motifs, time symbols, and mortality emblems, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

4 matching symbols

Nautical & Maritime Symbols Collection

Nautical & Maritime Symbols gathers 25 symbols shaped around ropework, anchors, beacons, ships, swallows, hearts, stars, and the symbolic shorthand of maritime life, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

3 matching symbols

Sanctum Hex Style Sacred Geometry Collection

Sanctum Hex Style Sacred Geometry gathers 25 symbols shaped around hex-based geometry, interlocking forms, measured circles, sigil-like grids, and clean sacred-geometry constructions, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

2 matching symbols

Alchemical Symbols Collection

Alchemical Symbols gathers 25 symbols shaped around alchemy, transmutation, planetary correspondences, and the symbolic language of matter, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

2 matching symbols

Medieval Pilgrim Protective Symbols (1100-1600) Collection

Medieval Pilgrim Protective Symbols (1100-1600) gathers 25 symbols shaped around pilgrim badges, journey signs, devotional monograms, protective emblems, shrine souvenirs, manuscript motifs, and symbols of faith, endurance, healing, identity, and safe return, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

1 matching symbol

Norse Symbols & Runes

A researched set spanning early Germanic Elder Futhark runes, Viking-age Norse motifs, medieval mythology, and later Icelandic magical staves. Each symbol distinguishes documented historical evidence from modern meanings such as guidance, protection, strength, memory, resilience, and renewal.

1 matching symbol

Witchcraft Collection

Witchcraft gathers 25 symbols shaped around folk magic, lunar ritual, protective signwork, and the symbolic language of domestic and ceremonial witchcraft, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.