Looking out across the snowy mountains and vertical rocky crags encircling Fuglafjørður, you can see where so many of these repetitive, interwoven patterns come from.
She points to the regional art form, Ebru, the process of paper marbling that produces constantly changing interwoven patterns, as a metaphor for multiculturalism.
Solid colors offer simple contrast to the complicated interwoven patterns of plaid.
Chief among them is the quincunx, an interwoven pattern of a central circle flowing continuously into four smaller surrounding circles, an emblem of eternity.
Home sewing is a $3.1 billion industry in the U.S., an interwoven pattern of quilt shows, sewing machine sales and grandmas selling their wares at church bazaars.
Kanchipuram weavers, who work in family cooperatives, have been producing fine silks, interwoven with patterns of peacocks and lotus flowers in gold and silver thread, for more than 1,000 years -- they were the purveyors to the Chola kings.
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
Through a gap in the current wall, under one of the ceramic plaques of Columbus's flagship, an unusual pattern can be discerned dimly: an interwoven guilloche pattern - sort of like a two-dimensional challah crust - in red and yellow mosaic tiles.
This is in fact an interwoven design.
Other tumours showed an interwoven, storiform pattern and some displayed solid areas with an epitheloid or plasmacytoid aspect.
Clearly an infinite number of interwoven molecular ring patterns are theoretically possible.
