Fundamental Frieze Scroll II

The Fundamental Frieze Scroll series follows in the footsteps of earlier pendants depicting the seven frieze groups in knitted lace. In those works, each of the seven designs occupies the same amount of space, regardless of complexity. Here, each frieze design is generated by the same fundamental region, a rectangular pattern with no internal symmetries that is rotated, reflected and/or translated to make the full pattern. Each design uses only enough copies of this rectangle to generate three translations of its primitive cell, the smallest region that can produce the whole design through translational symmetries.

Glass beads incorporated during the hand-knitting process highlight the symmetries in the Fundamental Frieze Scroll series. White beads mark reflection axes, yellow beads mark glide reflection axes, and blue beads mark centers of rotation. The red beads along the edges of the designs mark their translational symmetries, with the minimal duplication needed to preserve reflections, glide reflections and rotations.

The fundamental region in Fundamental Frieze Scroll II is an embellishment of the Truchet motif that produces more elaborate lace panels than those in Fundamental Frieze Scroll I.