The Vesica Piscis in Medieval Architecture

Jones gathered ornament from Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, Moresque, Celtic and Renaissance sources and set the patterns side by side. The plates show how the same geometric grids resurface in cultures that never met.

Owen Jones

Groups ornament by motive rather than by nation, so you can see the same rosette or interlace worked out by Greek, Moorish, Gothic and Japanese hands. Line drawings throughout, made for study rather than display.

W. and G. Audsley

Bragdon builds a whole ornamental language out of magic squares, regular polyhedra and projections from four-dimensional space. A practical manual for generating patterns from geometry alone.

Claude Bragdon