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A Kurdistan design popular in East Persia and the grid similar to that used in the arabesque. The is a toughly structured pattern which implies man's
Caucasus from the seventeenth century onwards, grid is composed of two square lattices, one of which understanding of the movement of nature. It is
displays the use of two symmetries, one of colour is at 45 to the other. In this example one can see similar in treatment to the ordering of nature
and one of form. The motifs are reversed and only a part of a continued field of movement which expressed in the garden carpets.
intermingled at different levels within an octagonal extends beneath and beyond the border. The border
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