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A rosette of forked rumi leaves: four mirrored pairs in terracotta and lapis around a gold centre and a small eight-pointed star, with a slender turquoise leaf on each diagonal.
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Rumi

No. 16 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA rosette of forked rumi leaves: four mirrored pairs in terracotta and lapis around a gold centre and a small eight-pointed star, with a slender turquoise leaf on each diagonal.

What it meansRumi, from the Turkish word for Anatolia, names the split, curling leaf form of Seljuk and Ottoman ornament, used in pairs and chains in tilework, carving, bookbinding and illumination.

Where it worksA bold, warm plate for a living room or a hallway.

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The word salam, peace, set four times in black on pale panels, each labelled: Kufic, Naskh, Ruq'a and Nastaliq.Four ScriptsNo. 19
A chart of glazed zellige pieces in six colours, white, black, lapis, turquoise, honey and terracotta, each cut in the same five exact shapes: eight-pointed star, kite, triangle, square and hexagon.Zellige PaletteNo. 20
A six-petalled rosette in lapis and blue, drawn on a pale sky ground with its full construction: the first circle, six circles of the same radius centred on its rim, the hexagon and hexagram that join their centres, and the compass points marked in terracotta.Six-Fold RosetteNo. 21
A large twelve-fold rosette on terracotta: a navy twelve-pointed star ringed by twelve sand and cream petals, inside a circle with its dodecagon and twenty-four division marks, while the full star pattern runs on faintly behind it.Twelve-Fold RosetteNo. 22
A sixteen-pointed star on ink, drawn as one continuous gold line that joins every fifth of sixteen points on a circle, the rings of shapes it encloses filled in blue, turquoise and terracotta around a deep blue centre, inside a circle marked with its sixteen divisions.Sixteen-Fold StarNo. 23
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.Darb-i ImamNo. 24

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