Unique and exceedingly lovely star design, with its off-center symmetry, POLARIS STAR is illustrated in 849 TRADITIONAL PATTERNS: A PICTORIAL HANDBOOK by Susan Winter Mills, Dover, 1980/1989, and also in CARRIE HALL BLOCKS, edited by Bettina Havig, but neither source offers pattern templates. The design was first marketed as FLYING BAT by the Ladies Art Company in 1895 (see Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS). See also the traditional FLYING BATS design at this site.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, Polaris is a "star of the second magnitude, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper and almost at the north celestial pole. Also called North Star, polar star, polestar."