Black and white floral pattern. Vector ornament with pomegranate. Stylized template for carpet, textile, linen, bedspread, shawl and any surface. Download a free preview or high-quality Adobe Illustrator (ai), EPS, PDF, SVG vectors and high-res JPEG and PNG images.

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Unless one collects medieval manuscripts, or perhaps the rare fine press book, it's unlikely that one will ever encounter that glory of the illuminator's art, the carpet page: The image above, from the famed Lindisfarne Gospels (late 7th or early 8th century CE), sports all the features generally attributed to this form of illumination, as a surprisingly illuminating Wikipedia article points out: [c]arpet pages are wholly devoted to ornamentation with brilliant colors, active lines, and complex patterns of interlace. They are normally [but not always] symmetrical, or very nearly so, about both a horizontal and vertical axis.... Some art historians find their origin in Coptic decorative book pages, ... and they also clearly borrow from contemporary metalwork decoration. Oriental carpets, or other textiles, may [also] have been influences.... The Islamic example below, via the Chester Beatty Library, is from an...