Originally Posted by ligia
Interesting subject.
I think the internet will in time make some concepts void.
Earlier today I happened to visit a page by chance where I
found something for free I knew from somewhere else as an original pattern.
Who had first the idea of that same representation ?
Most likely both designers took it from a 1800's quilt.
Was it posted before or after someone else had the pattern
copyrighted ?
Just my two confused cents.
It sounds like the two patterns you saw were written by different people to describe the same design, but the design was in the public domain? That's fine, no violation of any copyright.