Surprise me

A horseshoe arch set in a rectangular frame, tone on tone in bone and sand. The arch band alternates light and dark stones, and a small gold crescent sits inside the opening.
Room
Size
View

Ramadan & Eid

Horseshoe Arch

No. 6 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA horseshoe arch set in a rectangular frame, tone on tone in bone and sand. The arch band alternates light and dark stones, and a small gold crescent sits inside the opening.

What it meansThe horseshoe arch, which curves back in below its widest point, is typical of the architecture of North Africa and al-Andalus. Alternating voussoirs and a framing rectangle, the alfiz, often go with it.

Where it worksMade for everyday display: warm, neutral and architectural, with only a touch of gold. It suits a pale wall year-round.

Pin it
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

Everything is one ZIP: every shape and size, the phone wallpaper, the SVGs and a printing guide.

← PreviousNext →

More from Ramadan & Eid

All 100 prints
A regular field of eight-point stars on indigo. The stars grow larger and brighter towards the top right corner and shrink to small points at the far side, with tiny dots between them.StarlitNo. 7
A colonnade drawn in fine gold line under a midnight sky. Two strings of small warm bulbs hang between the arches, one at the capitals and one higher up, with scattered stars above.String of LightsNo. 8
A shallow indigo bowl heaped with dark dates on a sand table, set in front of a pale arched niche. The bowl has a gold rim and a band of small gold stars, and a single date lies beside it.Bowl of DatesNo. 9
A city at night: two layers of domes, minarets and flat roofs in silhouette against a sky that deepens from indigo to midnight. A crescent and scattered stars sit above, and a few arched windows glow gold.Night Over the CityNo. 10
A star-shaped lantern hanging on a chain against deep plum. Its sixteen brass facets alternate light and dark, small star piercings glow around a bright amber centre, and a gold tassel hangs below.Star LanternNo. 11
A gold crescent lying on its back like a bowl, with an eight-point star resting in its curve. Fine concentric gold circles ring the pair on an indigo ground.Crescent CradleNo. 12
Geometric borders stacked down an emerald sheet. Chevrons, eight-point stars, small arches, lozenges, crescents and dots each run the full width in gold.Gilded BordersNo. 13
A tall pointed doorway in a dusky plum wall, open onto a warm amber room. The door leaves stand back inside the jambs, a lantern hangs in silhouette in the opening, and light spills out across the step.Doorway at DuskNo. 14

You might also like

An engraved star-atlas plate of Gemini on a parchment ground, with a fine coordinate grid, a chequered border and Alhena picked out in gold.AlhenaStar Names · No. 45
A sheet of regular polygons, among them the hexagon, the pentagon, the octagon and the twelve-sided figure, each shown with the circles and crossing arcs of its compass construction and its corners marked in red.Compass WorkGolden Age · No. 12
A spiral galaxy seen at a slant on a deep rust ground: two arms of fine sand and ochre lines wind out from a cream core in a thin gold ring, strung with small stars, and four cream four-point stars sit in the corners among tiny dots.Spiral GalaxyCelestial · No. 20
Five pointed arches in a pale wall, each opening onto one time of the day: dawn with a crescent, the high noon sun, the gold of afternoon, the afterglow of sunset and night.Five ArchesFive Prayers · No. 6
A moon drawn in fine crossed hatching, the lit crescent left as bare paper.EngravedHilal · No. 68
Rows of tight spirals in teal, sand and cream, each one winding the combed stripes into a small nest.Nightingale's NestEbru · No. 5
A full field of stepped lozenges in madder and indigo, each ringed in saffron and cream around a small woven diamond at its centre.Lozenge FieldKilim · No. 1
A wide band of twelve-fold star tiles, saffron stars and teal pieces with bone joints, runs across the sheet between plum rules, with pale gold above and deep teal below.Tiled HorizonZellige · Colour Field · No. 20