Girih tile
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Girih tiles are a set of five tiles that were used in the creation of Islamic geometric patterns using strapwork for decoration of buildings in Islamic architecture. They have been used since about th
Complex girih patterns with 16-, 10- and 8-point stars at different scales in ceiling of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, 1935
A window of the crown prince's apartment in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, with 6-point stars; the surrounds have floral arabesque tiling
Interior archway at the opening of the Sultan's Lodge in the Ottoman Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey (1424), with 10-point stars and pentagons
Wooden screen from the Nishapur caravanserai
Topkapı Scroll
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The Topkapı Scroll is a Timurid dynasty patterned scroll in the collection of the Topkapı Palace museum.
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…were constructed by drafting zigzag outlines with only a straightedge and a compass. Templates found on scrolls such as the 97-foot (29.5 metres) long Topkapi Scroll may have been consulted. Found in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, and believed to date from the late…
Two adjacent patterns in the Topkapı Scroll. The cube-like red hexagon in the left pattern is covered in Square Kufic script.
Quarter dome muqarnas - in the form of a seashell (top), in the form of a radial, hand-held fan (bottom)
Hexagon with Kufic scripts of six time Muhammad (Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh) and three time Ali (Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib) in rotational symmetry