Drawings Diagrams & Analyses / Transoxiana / Samarkand / Shah-i-Zinda / NC 0009, 04 - 62 Line 01

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.