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Volume 32, Number 2, pages 225-228 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_225
OVERVIEW OF THE TYPES OF SYMMETRY IN THE BULGARIAN EMBROIDERY
Radostina Atanassova*
* Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: radi@geology.bas.bg
Abstract: The Bulgarian traditional embroidering ornaments are unique both with the plenty of patterns and with the wealth of colours. Review of the symmetry groups in embroidery motifs was made on the base of the extensive ethnological collection and description. The types of symmetry in the Bulgarian embroidery are one- and two-dimensional design patterns. The two-dimensional geometrical patterns in the great majority were based on orthogonal axial systems. Colour complex examples of them are rather frequent. The embroidery is an excellent example of the implementation of symmetry in the human art and life.
Keywords: one- and two-dimensional symmetry, plane groups, Bulgarian embroidery.
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