Carpets can have many forms of symmetry, although perhaps not of the super variety. One example is shown above, from western Turkestan. Photographs of oriental carpets of many designs and patterns are to be found in The Carpet by Enza Milanesi (Tauris Parke/Firefly, £29.50/$50).
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Filling space–time. Nature 407, 563 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35036641
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