Whether a carpet with motifs that seem to flow beyond the fabric’s edges or walls teeming with interlocking patterns whose figure-ground relationships are at times ambiguous, Islamic geometrics ...

Islamic art is often vibrant and distinctive. Unlike Christian art, Islamic art isn't restricted to religious work, but includes all the artistic traditions in Muslim culture. Its strong aesthetic ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...

Celebrating the bold patterns, luxurious materials and meticulous techniques that went into crafting carpets for historic ...

Using Islamic art as a springboard for modern works can be a fraught exercise. But the question of how artists today respond to this heritage vocabulary is fascinating. And on August 31, the ...

TEHRAN – The Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch, turned the spotlight on geometric patterns and designs in Islamic art during a two-day seminar held on December 4 and 5. The seminar was attended ...

The Beauty and Complexity of Islamic Geometric Patterns: Historical Development and Traditional Design Methodology,” book signing and talk by Jay Bonner, part of the Dean’s Lecture series 7:30 ...

Islamic tiling patterns were put together not with a compass and ruler, as previously assumed, but by tessellating a small number of different tiles with complex shapes, say Peter J. Lu of Harvard ...

These Islamic non-periodic tiling patterns also have five-fold symmetry. What is unknown is how these Muslim artisans and mathematicians discovered girih tiles and their alignment.

And when he combed through thousands of photos of medieval Islamic buildings, he found that same set of shapes increasingly used over the years to make ever-more complex patterns, including a ...