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Vitruvian scroll pattern. The Vitruvian scroll is a scroll pattern used in architectural moldings and borders in other media. It is also known as the Vitruvian wave, wave scroll, or running dog pattern. [1] The pattern resembles waves in water or a series of parchment scrolls viewed on end.
The first scroll, which is considered the most famous, depicts various animals (frogs, rabbits and monkeys) frolicking as if they were human. [6] [8] [18] There is no writing on any of the scrolls; they consist of pictures only. [19] The first scroll is also the largest, with a length of 11 meters (36 ft) and 30 cm (1 ft) wide. [8]
Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back to at least the Bronze Age; geometric scroll ornament has been found in the Palace of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to approximately 1800 BC, [8] perhaps drawing from even earlier Egyptian styles; there were also early ...
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Example of a Birch bark scroll piece A wiigwaasabak (in Anishinaabe syllabics : ᐐᒀᓴᐸᒃ , plural: wiigwaasabakoon ᐐᒀᓴᐸᑰᓐ ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa ( Anishinaabe ) people of North America wrote with a written language composed of complex geometrical patterns and shapes .
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