Product Description

Contains 190 examples exhibiting the wide range of Islamic geometrical art: hexagon designs, dodecagon designs, combinations of stars and rosettes (of many variations), combinations of squares and octagons, heptagon designs, and pentagon designs. 28 examples of actual applications from Cairo and Damascus are included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65432 in Books
• Published on: 1973-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)

Customer Reviews

Geometrical Designs in Black and White
This book is full of different patterns for use by craftsmen. Unfortunately, it has no color illustrations, and no information about sources for these designs. It is more like a coloring book than a resource for designs. However, it does have guidelines within each design to show how the design was created, and I find that useful.

must have
Arabic Geometrical Patterns are not so easy to find, not to mention understand their knowhows, this book clearly displays a very wide array of examples with simple step by step instructions displayed on the same platform, i was searching for a book like that, this book is quite enough, it is not for novice beginners though, you need to have some background in such subject as the text and discription for each chapter is very limited, and the book is totally black and white, so you have to figureout what color combinations are suitable. But the layout of the book makes reprouducing the wounderful examples easy.

Geometry made easy
This book has an extensive variety of geometric patterns that can be use by a Math teacher as well as an Art teacher. The designs are easy to reproduce. The display of the designs are big enough for students to try out and experiment. I greatly recommend it.