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In this pattern we find no pentagons either in the underlying grid, but irregular hexagons and octagons sometimes referred to as bow-tie and bobbin shapes. These can be arranged in many different ways, with the parts of pattern they each contain corresponding nicely, as they do in the next design.
These drawings, from which the following examples were selected, were originally acquired for the South Kensington Museum (the precursor of…
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2009