Komi-Permyak ornament is a closed set of signs that the loom and the chisel agree on. The perna — a stepped solar cross — repeats in madder red across undyed homespun bands, and the same figure is gouged into spruce porch boards along the Kama.

Nothing curves. A pick-up float and a V-gouge both work in whole units, so every arm steps orthogonally or on the diagonal, mirrored around a vertical axis. Older Perm bronzes — moose, birds, elk-headed men — survive here already flattened into that same line.