Valentine's Day cards

Cards are one of the special attractions for the day. The cards include a wide range of emotions. Quirky, funny, witty, charming, ornate, romantic, sensitive, and more Note Cards can be sent or given to anyone and everyone, be they lovers, friends or family.

The tradition of Valentine's Day greeting cards dates back to medieval times. It 'started with Charles, Duke of Orleans in 1415, which addressed a poem to his beloved wifeduring his detention in the Tower of London after the battle of Agincourt. The postcard is a special memory and a part of the collection of manuscripts at the British Library. In the sixteenth century, did the tradition of greeting cards Valentine going. Handwritten cards were developed with lace, silk or satin, flowers, gold leaf or even decorated sachets. Colored paper and watercolors are among the key elements used to create the card.

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TraditionExchange of printed cards for Valentine's Day has come to the fore because of printing costs and shipping cheaper. Ready-made cards were an easy way to discourage people, their emotions in a time to speak, when there were subtle emotion of the day and direct expression of their feelings were. Paper Valentine cards were very popular in England. Cards made with images of Cupid and the heart were for sale by the end of the nineteenth century.

In the United States,Greeting cards for Valentine's Day began in 1840 with Esther A. Howland, who sold the first cards, mass produced in America. Since then, the exchange of cards as a popular ritual has continued until today. After the association estimates that a greeting card on Valentine billion cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day card sending holiday of the year's second-largest. This confirms the importance of the day in the life ofAmericans.

The most frequent jokes in these cards is "Be My Valentine". A Valentine's Day is a special person emerges as a lover on Valentine's Day highlighted. Not only limited to soul mates, cards have become an important opportunity to send cards to close friends, family, relatives, teachers, students and other social relations, as a symbolic gesture of love, respect and admiration.

They were in the age of electronic greeting, there was a revival of the charmValentine's Day e-cards are handmade. Regardless of the form, perhaps, a unique, sentimental, handmade paper, an e-card with a personal message or a printed map, is the message board states that remain unchanged over the centuries.

Valentine's Day cards