unsymmetric

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As already seen, the peculiar character of textile construction places great difficulties in the way of introducing unsymmetric and complex figures like those of natural objects into fabrics.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry

The side representing the face is prolonged, giving an unsymmetric profile, as seen in the second figure.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry

In others the tail fin is unsymmetric: the backbone runs into the upper lobe, leaving the two lobes of unequal size.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon