The secret history of spots, stripes and other everyday patterns

The secret history of spots, stripes and other everyday patterns
The honeycomb design on breakfast cereal, the fleur-de-lis spikes on an iron gate, a constellation of guilloché spirals on our banknotes — if we look close enough, most of our built environment is embossed or embellished with some kind of pattern. But behind those everyday patterns are surprising, sometimes scandalous stories.

November 26, 2015 at 04:08AM
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