Wortbild Tatted Heart Valentine Ornament

The Heart That Speaks in Lace

At the turn of the last century, when German lacemakers traded secrets in inked margins and hand-tatted motifs carried the hush of workshop windows, one tradition endured: the Wortbild — a picture shaped not by brush or pen, but by thread.

This heart honors that legacy.

Tatted in deliberate strokes like script, each ring a softened consonant, each chain a whispered vowel, the lace becomes its own quiet language. It is the kind of heart once slipped between pages of a book, pressed flat beneath longing, or kept in a drawer lined with letters no one dared to send.

Here, pattern becomes poetry.
Thread becomes memory.
A heart becomes a word-image — a message held in lace, waiting for the one who can read what is felt but never spoken aloud.

Wortbild is not merely made.
It is written.

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DETAILS

• Dimensions: approximately 3.5" wide by 4" tall
• Thread: vibrant red cotton
• Finish: Handmade, needle tatted
• Part of the Threadmarked Valentine Collection.