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Licitar heart motif illustration

CROATIA · CELEBRATION

Licitar heart

What it means: Love, wedding blessings and affection between people.

Red hearts are a common form in northern Croatian gingerbread craft. Wedding versions often carry the couple’s names and date, while individual makers maintain their own decorative styles.

Often chosen for: Love & partnership · Family, home & belonging · Luck, joy & celebration · Care, gratitude & remembrance · Curiosity, creativity & wonder

Respectful use: Clearly distinguish decorative objects from edible products. Do not copy an existing workshop’s original pattern. Cultural-risk ratings do not clear image, trademark, official-emblem or community rights; use original art and review rights separately.

Design a gift with licitar heart

Sources: [1] ich.unesco.org

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