![]() ![]() These tiles are dated 1215 AD/CE (612 AH). Iranian tiles in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London This Mughal carved masonry and stone relief is dated 1550 AD/CE (955 AH in the Islamic Calendar). It’s found throughout the Islamic world and beyond. One of the simpler patterns to recreate is the star and cross design also known as The Breath of the Compassionate. These are three important elements found in Islamic art. Search for any of these hashtags on Instagram for #islamicillumination or #islamicgeometry and you’ll soon find a wonderful array of artwork from current artists around the world incorporating geometric, calligraphic and biomorphic (intertwined stems, leaves and flowers) designs. It is then that the cross can also be seen and the overall design is known as the Star and Cross pattern. Alternatively, the star can be drawn repeatedly to form what is known as a tessellated pattern. The star can be used on its own, maybe to frame some calligraphy or a floriated Arabesque design. For more information please read my disclaimer. **** This post may contain affiliate links. It features an eight-pointed star or octagram as it is called in geomtery. Stunning tilework adorn the facades and interiors of mosques, forts and many other majestic buildings with similar designs appearing in exquisite ancient Islamic manuscripts. One of the easiest of these Arabic geometric patterns to draw is the star and cross pattern. I folded this model from a sheet of blue, hand-made abaca and flax paper created by John Gerard paperworks.If you’ve ever travelled to the Middle East or Morroco or visited Moorish palaces like the Alhambra in southern Spain, you will no doubt have been mesmerised by Arabic geometric art. Since one side resembles stars and the other one suns. Halina Rościszewska Narloch (Haligami) called her version Day and Night Tessellation Independently designed by several others before me, starting with Shuzo Fujimoto. ![]() ![]() As I learned after the fact, the fractal version of the molecule had been This is a tessellation of the molecule which I first used in Lucky Star Box and which I later extended into Lucky Star Family, Models designed by me and by others, Showcase, Tessellation Examples Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Haligami (Halina Rościszewska-Narloch), Michał Kosmulski (independent design) Hand-Made Paper (John Gerard’s abaca and flax paper)Ībstract tessellation, abstract, geometric, pattern, star, symbol, abstract periodic tessellation, non-recursive periodic tessellation, periodic tessellation, tessellation) Lucky Star Box, Lucky Star Box (Simplified), Lucky Star Fractal John Gerard’s Hand-Made Abaca and Flax Paper Review Main model description: Lucky Star Fractal Tessellation Other folds and variants: Lucky Star Tessellation, Lucky Star Fractal Tessellation ![]()
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