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Borders

Borders comprise of various ornamental and decorative border elements. Classical style decorative borders consist of corners, centerpiece, patterns, whole frames and various border elements combined with an assortment of text and ornaments. Borders are characterized by motifs repeating itself infinitely along a straight line or finitely along a circle. A border pattern has either a vertical line, vertical and horizontal line, vertical and horizontal glide reflection, horizontal reflection, horizontal glide reflection, or a half-turn symmetry in addition to a translation symmetry.