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Eight-point stars, alternately blush and rose clay, locked together with clay crosses in wide bone joints, framed on a bone ground.
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Zellige · Colour Field

Star and Cross

No. 7 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeEight-point stars, alternately blush and rose clay, locked together with clay crosses in wide bone joints, framed on a bone ground.

What it meansThe star-and-cross tiling is a classic of Islamic tilework: each star is two squares at forty-five degrees and the crosses fill the spaces between.

Where it worksBrings the feel of a tiled wall to a kitchen, bathroom or entrance.

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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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A framed field of octagons and four-point stars, clay octagons and cobalt stars in one half of the sheet and the colours swapped in the other, the change running straight through a row of octagons.CounterchangeNo. 8
A central field of cobalt stars, saffron petals and ink four-point stars inside a persimmon border of bone eight-point stars, with a cobalt square and saffron star at each corner, all ruled in ink.Panel and BorderNo. 9
A framed field of twelve-point stars and the petals around them, in two tones of teal and turquoise with pale joints, on a pale mint ground.Two TonesNo. 10
A sixteen-fold rosette on a large ink disc, cut into four quarters by ink lines, each quarter coloured in a different arrangement of cobalt, saffron, clay and bone, on a plain bone sheet.Four ColourwaysNo. 11
A close crop of olive eight-point stars, each holding an ochre star of the same shape, on a ground of sage petals with small moss four-point stars and bone joints.Stars, CloseNo. 12
A framed twelve-fold star field whose colours glow outward tile by tile from the centre: pale saffron and blush in the middle, then persimmon and clay, with aubergine at the corners.Kiln SunNo. 13
A framed field of pale sage octagons and deeper green four-point stars separated by bone joints.One GlazeNo. 14
Three round windows of different sizes set on a diagonal across an indigo sheet, each ringed in gold and showing a different star pattern: saffron and cobalt eight-fold, bone and gold twelve-fold, and a small cobalt and saffron twelve-fold.Three OculiNo. 15

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