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THE application of the theory of symmetry to decorative designs is well known to students of crystallography and to mathematicians interested in the theory of groups. Text-books on design do not discuss these simple rules for the construction and classification of patterns, most likely because the subject up to the present has been treated only in the technical language of mathematics.
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GOUDSMIT, S. Symmetry of Symbols. Nature 139, 417 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139417b0
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