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A line drawing of a muqarnas vault in plan: squares and rhombi radiating from an eight-pointed star, with each tier ring drawn heavier and gold construction lines laid over it.
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Muqarnas

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No. 3 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA line drawing of a muqarnas vault in plan: squares and rhombi radiating from an eight-pointed star, with each tier ring drawn heavier and gold construction lines laid over it.

What it meansCraftsmen designed muqarnas in two dimensions first, drawing each cell as a simple plan unit such as a square, a rhombus or a half-square; surviving pattern scrolls record such plans.

Where it worksSuits a study, a home office or anyone who loves a good drawing.

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A deep cornice of muqarnas cells under a dark eave, lit low from one side so every hood falls into shadow and every pendant face catches the sun, with the cornice’s shadow laid along the wall below.Raking LightNo. 4
A single tall niche in a plain stucco wall, crowned by a small half-dome of cells and framed with a fine gold line.NicheNo. 5
The corner of a room where two walls meet, one in light and one in shade, bridged above by a squinch: a pointed arch filled with rows of stucco cells beneath the dark base of the dome.SquinchNo. 6
A slender column crowned by a capital of three stepped tiers of muqarnas cells under a square abacus, with pointed arches springing from it against a deep blue sky.CapitalNo. 7
Three rows of muqarnas niches running beneath a sandstone eave, above a plain stucco wall with slender pointed windows.CorniceNo. 8
A muqarnas dome seen from below, its folded cells painted in alternating rings of turquoise and lapis with gold joints, closing on a gold star, on a ground of faint eight-pointed stars.Painted VaultNo. 9
A close view of white stucco muqarnas: row upon row of niches in which only light and shadow describe each cell.White StuccoNo. 10
Three tiers of muqarnas cells drawn in elevation and lifted apart, in lapis, turquoise and stucco, with gold guide lines showing how each joint in one tier sits over the centre of a cell in the tier below.Exploded TierNo. 11

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