Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 144
and 48. Its connexion with the developed svastika is fairlyobvious, and it originated in a very simple manner. We are now so familiar with the ways of the eastern designer, that it willcause no surprise to find him obtaining a little variety in his borders by arrang-ing the svnstikn elements… … Fig 49 The next development was inevitable. These S figures were evidentlymade to be interlocked ; and so, pruning them of some of their involutions, theywere interlocked and produced the borders given in figs. 50 and 50a. Fig. 50 is given by Owen Jones among the Greek • keys (No. 7 pi. XY) ;lint…
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