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Analyzing cultural tilings

Questions. Does a culture make use of all possible classifications?Can works from different cultures by identified by the classifications they use?Is a break from a symmetric pattern seen as pejorative or part of the design ethic?. Examples. Kuba clothproduced by the Kuba people (found in the Dem

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Analyzing cultural tilings

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    1. Analyzing cultural tilings Both frieze and wallpaper classification have been used to analyze cultural artifacts Incan and Maori strip patterns (Marcia Ascher in Ethnomathematics) African textiles (Washburn and Crowe in Symmetries of Culture) the patterns on the Alhambra (http://weasel.cnrs.humboldt.edu/~spain/alh/index.html)

    2. Questions Does a culture make use of all possible classifications? Can works from different cultures by identified by the classifications they use? Is a break from a symmetric pattern seen as pejorative or part of the design ethic?

    3. Examples Kuba cloth produced by the Kuba people (found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) examples of raffia cloth weaving

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