Double Happiness motif detail
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Double Happiness

囍 · 双喜

Marriage, partnership, celebration and good fortune.

The character 囍 is one of the clearest wedding emblems in Chinese visual culture. In woven cloth it can turn a checked household textile into an explicit marriage blessing.

Interpretation status: Widely established cultural association. Meanings are catalogued with their level of certainty rather than treated as universal maker statements.
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1 documented textile record currently connected to this motif.