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Pattern 10 is a little different in that the blue layer doesn't contain a ten pointed star at it's centre and therefore the design as a whole doesn't have the same degree of ten fold symmetry. The main pattern in grey however, still does contain a ten pointed star at it's centre, though unlike the others it's not being orbited by ten ten pointed stars.
This remarkable set of architectural drawings was first brought to public attention in 1986 by Filiz Çagman of the Topkapi…
Courtesy of the Topkapi Scrolls Museum Library, Istanbul, Turkey