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WEBSITE - Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
(1997)
Abstract
Award-winning website on symmetry and pattern, developed by Carol Bier in collaboration with The Math Forum at Swarthmore College; subsequently hosted by The Math Forum at Drexel University and then the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. NCTM retired the site in 2021, but it is preserved on the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20191211014540/http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/index.html
A rug gallery illustrates historical carpets, with explanations of symmetry in border patterns and field patterns, underlying grids, and features of carpet-making.
Keywords
- symmetry,
- pattern,
- geometry,
- Islamic art,
- carpets,
- rugs,
- borders,
- field,
- translation,
- rotation,
- reflection,
- glide reflection,
- axis,
- grid,
- tessellation
Disciplines
Publication Date
1997
Comments
(c) The Textile Museum and The Math Forum
Citation Information
Carol Bier. "WEBSITE - Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets" (1997) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/39/