The Textile Museum 1996.9.1 |
This carpet exhibits an overall repeat pattern of large blossoms within a
hexagonal grid. Each blossom is shown in profile with a vertical axis of
reflection. The field pattern can be read as reflections and translations in
a hexagonal grid, or as reflections and glide reflections.
The colorful tulip-and-leaf border plays with the symmetry operations of reflection and glide reflection. While each tulip is framed by a pair of leaves, the symmetry of this border pattern exhibits ambiguity, such that each leaf belongs to two tulips! |
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