Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Role of Pattern in Culture by Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W. Crowe

1. Introduction to the Plane Symmetries by Donald W. Crowe

2. Periodic Ornamentation of the Fabric Plane: Lessons from Peruvian Fabrics by Branko Grunbaum

3. Creating Symmetry on the Loom by Carrie Brezine

4. Symmetries on Mats Woven by Yombe Women from the Lower Congo: On the Interplay between Cultural Values and Mathematical-Technical Possibilities by Paulus Gerdes

5. Continuity and Change in Zulu Beadwork Conventions: The Interaction of Color and Pattern by Frank Jolles

6. Motion Pictures: Symmetry as Animator, Classifier, and Syntax in the Nasca Embroideries of Peru by Mary Frame

7. Tanka, Chongo, Kutij: Structure of the World through Cloth by E. M. Franquemont and C. R. Franquemont

8. Symmetry Analysis of Ica Valley Ceramics: Insights into Ica-Inca Interactions by Dorothy K. Washburn

9. At Play in the Fields of Symmetry: Design Structure and Shamanic Therapy in the Upper Amazon by Peter G. Roe

10. Cognitive Structures and Body Metaphors in the Aesthetic and Everyday Discourse of Turkish-Yoruk Weavers by Patricia Daugherty

Contributors

Index

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About the Author

Dorothy K. Washburn is a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. She lives in Titusville, New Jersey. Donald W. Crowe is professor emeritus of mathematics, University of Wisconsin. Their book Symmetries of Culture received the George Wittenborn Book Award. Other contributors include Carrie Brezine, Patricia Daugherty, Mary Frame, Christine Franquemont, Ed Franquemont, Paulus Gerdes, Branko Grünbaum, Frank Jolles, and Peter Roe.