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The corner of a carpet: a narrow outer guard stripe, a wide brown main border of rosettes and green cartouches on a scrolling vine, a narrow inner guard and the start of a blue field, with a rosette set square in the corner and each part labelled.
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Border Anatomy

No. 95 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeThe corner of a carpet: a narrow outer guard stripe, a wide brown main border of rosettes and green cartouches on a scrolling vine, a narrow inner guard and the start of a blue field, with a rosette set square in the corner and each part labelled.

What it meansA carpet border is built in layers, a main border between narrow guard stripes, framing the field. Weavers had to plan how the border pattern would turn the corner, often by placing a rosette or other motif across it.

Where it worksA good plate for a study, a hallway or anyone who loves rugs.

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A ring of thirty small moons on ink, from the thin crescent of day one through full moon to the last crescent, with day thirty shown as a dashed circle. Inside, the twelve hijri months in Arabic around a gold crescent, with Ramadan in gold. In tall and wide shapes the months are listed beside the ring.The Lunar MonthNo. 98
Two star charts on ink with faint field stars. Orion and Taurus show Betelgeuse, Rigel, Saiph, the three belt stars, Aldebaran and the Pleiades; the Summer Triangle shows Vega, Altair, Deneb and Sadr. Each named star is labelled in English and in its Arabic original.Arabic Star NamesNo. 99
A pale stone horizontal sundial with north at the top: hour lines in blue, the curves traced by the shadow's tip at the winter and summer solstices and the straight equinox line, the noon line, the asr curve in red and a gold arrow pointing to Mecca. Tall shapes add a compass rose with the qibla needle.Qibla and SundialNo. 100
A full field of ten-fold girih pattern: cream strapwork weaving over and under through lapis ten-pointed stars, turquoise pentagons and terracotta and gold pieces, with the faint tile edges beneath. Below or beside it the five girih tiles are laid out as a key: decagon, pentagon, rhombus, elongated hexagon and bowtie.GirihNo. 1
A panel of zellige mosaic on the octagon-and-square grid: cream and lapis eight-pointed stars, turquoise kites, small terracotta and gold four-pointed stars and black corner pieces, every piece separated by an even line of pale grout, inside a black frame.ZelligeNo. 2
A panel of gold strapwork that weaves over and under itself through a twelve-fold pattern on a deep ink ground: terracotta twelve-pointed stars, lapis six-pointed stars and small turquoise pieces, the panel edges falling on the pattern's own lines of symmetry.TashbikNo. 3

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