Tesselations—sets of repeating shapes that do not overlap or have gaps between them—are simple compositions with sometimes complex visual results.

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Pattern: 
Thousand Pyramids
Maker: 
Maker unknown
Circa
1880
1900
Possibly made in
Pennsylvania
United States
77.5
78
International Quilt Museum, Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof Collection
2003.003.0009