Notes: Strictly speaking, this beautiful design is not a tessellation, since it does not really consist of clearly defined shapes. However, notice that the overall shape of the semiregular tessellation 4.8.8 can be seen, mostly through the large areas of black. This design exhibits all forms of symmetry (rotational, since it can be rotated around the middle point of any diamond shape and be unaffected; translational because shifting the design left or right will not change the tessellation; reflective, since it can be reflected vertically or horizontally without changing the tessellation; and glide reflective, since the tessellation has translational and reflective symmetries).

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Book:	Racinet, Auguste. Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament: All 120 Plates from "L'Ornement Polychrome," Series II. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989.
Location:	Plate 79

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