The ideal aimed at in Saracenic designs is that each “ pattern space ” should have either radial or bilateral symmetry. It is surprising that this ideal is so nearly achieved in a pattern in which the very awkward constituent of seven-rayed stars is combined with octagons and regular square-shaped outlines.
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E. H. Hankin (1934) studied this question.
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