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Description A decorative knot with 15 crossings and five-fold rotational symmetry (partly a variation on a design in George Bain's Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction, but changed from 6-fold symmetry to 5-fold symmetry and given rather different artistic rendering).
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current00:59, 14 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 00:59, 14 July 2012608 × 600 (15 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)fix minor glitch
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