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Voronoi mosaics built from cells of equal size, which are of primary importance for the decorative arts, are reported. The pronounced prevalence of hexagons is inherent for the patterns with an equidistant and non-equidistant distribution of points when the distance between the seed points is of the same order of magnitude as the distance between the turns of the spiral. Penta- and heptagonal \u201cdefected\u201d cells appeared in the Voronoi diagrams due to the finite nature of the pattern. The ordered Voronoi tessellations demonstrating the Voronoi entropy larger than 1.71, reported for the random 2D distribution of points, were revealed. The dependence of the Voronoi entropy on the total number of seed points located on the Archimedes Spirals is reported. Voronoi tessellations generated by the phyllotaxis-inspired patterns are addressed. 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