Dyeing to Make an Orbifold
Bobby Stecher and Carolyn Yackel

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 545–552
Workshop Papers

Abstract

Workshop participants will learn why only seven of the orbifolds corresponding to the seventeen plane symmetry groups can be folded and dyed from an uncut piece of paper. This understanding will be utilized in dyeing cotton bandanas with one of the seven available symmetry patterns using the technique of itajime shibori.

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