Making charts using ArcMap

I found this beautiful persin ornament. Link to the source: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/community/archive_ornament/

I add it to ArcMap as a layer:

I made new polygon shapefile. This is the first square.

Other squares copied with "Mirror features" (set snapping to vertices). This initial layer of squares should cover only one repeatable motif (well, mine is a little bit bigger here).

I get multiple colours by symbolizing. That means to assign different ID values to squares with different colours and then assign colours to them with symbolization. I select those squares whose colours will be similar, open attribute table and then assign to their's ID fields similar values by "calculate field". Actully I have to do this with one repeatable motif only. Then I can copy this motif to any direction using "Mirror features". Wish to change colours? Just select the needed squares and assign to them another value.

Here is the result. Well, it is not a larger copy of the source. it is just an interpretation

ArcMap versus Excel? You can mirror motifs with ArcMap. You can put the original picture (the photo of a textile for example) in the background. Changing colour is easier in ArcMap, I think. Well, not everybody has ArcMap on his/her PC, that is minus.