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A field of ten-fold girih on deep lapis: broad gold straps weave over and under through a large pattern of ten-pointed stars, and each large star is filled with the same kind of pattern at a third of the scale, in sky blue, clay and bone line.
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Darb-i Imam

No. 24 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA field of ten-fold girih on deep lapis: broad gold straps weave over and under through a large pattern of ten-pointed stars, and each large star is filled with the same kind of pattern at a third of the scale, in sky blue, clay and bone line.

What it meansThe tile panels of the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan carry girih patterns at two scales, a large pattern whose spaces are filled with a smaller one, and historians of science have studied them as an early example of self-similar design. The drawing shows the idea rather than copying a panel.

Where it worksA deep, intricate plate for a library, a study or a dining room.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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Four square panels of the same grid of octagons and squares, its edges dashed and their midpoints marked in terracotta. From each midpoint two lapis lines leave at a set angle, 45, 56.25, 67.5 and 78.75 degrees, and meet in stars that sharpen as the angle grows; each panel is cut along the pattern's mirror lines.Hankin’s MethodNo. 25
A tiling of deep green octagons and brown squares on pale sage, each octagon set with a gold eight-pointed star and each square with a smaller square, with one corner opened out in a roundel to show its angles of 135, 135 and 90 degrees.Octagon and SquareNo. 26
A field of cream eight-pointed star tiles, each centred with a lapis or red star and an ochre octagon, interlocking with deep green crosses that carry four small ochre dots, all within dark joints on warm saffron.Star and CrossNo. 27
A panel on soft rose of burgundy hexagons, each holding a pale six-pointed star, and gold and blue triangles pointing up and down, so that a star of triangles rings every hexagon; one corner is circled where triangle, hexagon, triangle and hexagon meet at 60 and 120 degrees.TrihexagonalNo. 28
A Solomon's knot on deep teal: a gold loop and a coral loop, two even bands crossing at right angles and passing alternately over and under, inside a dark roundel ringed with fine gold lines.Solomon’s KnotNo. 29
A rectangular interlace knot on aubergine: a single gold strand runs on the diagonal, turns at the edges of a grid and crosses itself over and under, with the spaces between filled in pink and violet and set with small gold and cream diamonds.Endless KnotNo. 30
A field of six-pointed stars on deep teal, coloured gold, coral and cream in a repeating three-colour order, each with a smaller star inside, joined by small hexagons and woven through by a pale mint strap that runs over and under.Hexagram TilingNo. 31
Four brick panels on saffron, each labelled: basket weave of paired bricks, herringbone with diagonal bands of green glazed brick, and two banna'i walls in running bond whose blue and green glazed bricks trace lozenges and chevrons.HazarbafNo. 32

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