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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.
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Twelve-Fold Rosette

No. 22 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA 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.

What it meansIn Islamic geometric art a rosette is a star surrounded by a ring of petals. Twelve-fold rosettes are set on grids of dodecagons, hexagons and squares, so that each one sits in a pattern that can be extended without end.

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

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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
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A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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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.Darb-i ImamNo. 24
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

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