Lending

Fantastic book for artists wishing to understand and create repeat patterns or tilings. Explains symmetry groups and systems of notation as well. Also beautiful full color images of many quilts. Too bad it's out of print, but available used. ( )

This is a book i got from the library, read and added to my wish list to look for in used book stores, it is that good. I am not even a quilter. ( )

Maybe you've spent time pouring over pictures of the Alhambra or have laboured trying to design your own patterns for fabric or wallpaper, you may love Escher. Jinny Beyer does a great job of explaining how tessellations work. This book is about patterns. The book is not about mathematics exactly, it more steps around the mathematics part and shows you how to make reflections and offsets. The author's background is that she makes quilts and writes books and teaches people about quilting. ( )

bbq