Under the Big Tent

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This is a modern recreation, but notice how the inside of a church dome has been mimicked on the outside of a tent, including the tracery on the lower part toward the edges where the dome usually meets the side pillars:



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Or, as I mentioned and illustrated in post #11, the "tracery" on the VMS drawing might be the tent tie-downs which have many different patterns. Here is one with five cords coming together in a knot:




However, it seems to me that the curves on the edges of the VMS "dome" are drawn more like architectural tracery than cording patterns (which may nor may not be an indication of what they actually are).