Solomons-knot-ornamental.svg


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Basic decorative depiction of the "Solomon's knot" configuration of two closed loops (or "L4a1 link" of mathematical knot theory).

For another version, see File:Solomons-knot-square.svg .
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Self-made graphic (loosely influenced by File:San-Tome-Bergamo_(detail).jpg ), converted from the following vector PostScript source code:

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