Part of a serial article by E. H. Hankin on constructing geometrical patterns in Mohammedan (Saracenic) art, covering square, hexagonal, octagonal and arabesque classes. It explains construction grids, the large octagon, small octagon and eight-pointed star, and the use of templates to build octagonal patterns, illustrated with line-drawn figures. The scan also includes the start of a report on the Second World Cotton Conference held in Liverpool and Manchester in June 1921.