“By the South’s streams where lotus bloom, how thick and spreading are the leaves.” From an ancient ballad in the Yuefu Poems. “The boundless green lotus leaves reach up to the sky, while the lotus flowers bathed in the sun glow with a distinctive red hue.” Wrote by Chinese Southern Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli. Designers take inspiration from lotus leaves, a beloved motif among scholars, to craft works that embody poetic oriental charm.