Girih (Persian: گره, "knot", also written gereh) are decorative Islamic geometric patterns used in architecture and handicraft objects, consisting of...

Girih tiles are a set of five tiles that were used in the creation of Islamic geometric patterns using strapwork (girih) for decoration of buildings in...

forms in Islamic art and architecture. These include kilim carpets, Persian girih and Moroccan zellij tilework, muqarnas decorative vaulting, jali pierced...

Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba. Girih tiles The subdivision rule used to generate the Girih pattern on the spandrel. Girih pattern that can be drawn with...

period, and survive into medieval artistic traditions both in Islamic art (girih decorations) and in Gothic art. The name "Flower of Life" is given to the...

married lived together with their parents in a class structural house. Girih tiling consists of straight and broken lines on a regular basis that could...

Massachusetts. He has been recognized for his discoveries of quasicrystal patterns (girih tiles) in medieval Islamic architecture, early precision compound machines...

strapwork lines (girih), generally more visible than the tile boundaries. In 2007, the physicists Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt argued that girih from the 15th...

Girih-tile subdivision found in the decagonal girih pattern on a spandrel from the Darb-i Imam shrine, Isfahan, Iran (1453 C.E.). A subdivision rule to...

extensive, and for some excessive, use of strapwork inside and out. Islamic girih uses complex patterns and interlace, but the form of the strips is generally...

11-point star. The Topkapı Scroll contains images of an 11-pointed star Girih form used in Islamic art. The star in this scroll is not one of the regular...

Other important tile techniques of this time include girih tiles, with their characteristic white girih, or straps. Mihrabs, being the focal points of mosques...

kilim. In Islamic art, symmetries are evident in forms as varied as Persian girih and Moroccan zellige tilework, Mughal jali pierced stone screens, and widespread...

are girih tiles present in the mausoleum as well as other geometric patterns in the tilework. According to Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt, the girih tiles...

Mohammad Gaus Tomb in Gwalior 19th-century house in Gwalior, using stone jalis Girih Jharokha Openwork Venturi effect Lerner 1984, pp. 156–157. Azmi, Feza Tabassum...

but not by de Bruijn's cut-and-project method. Pentagonal and decagonal Girih-tile pattern on a spandrel from the Darb-i Imam shrine, Isfahan, Iran (1453...

forms in Islamic art and architecture including kilim carpets, Persian girih and Moroccan/Algerian zellige tilework, muqarnas decorative vaulting, jali...

which plays an important role in chromatics. Mudéjar often makes use of girih geometric strapwork decoration, as used in Middle East architecture, where...

poem, a found poem". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Truchet tiles. Girih tiles Wallpaper group Wang tiles Browne, Cameron (2008), "Truchet curves...

Islamic ornament) Ablaq (multicoloured ashlar) Alfiz Arabesque Banna'i Girih Girih tiles Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns Jali Mosque lamp...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

without self-intersecting edges. It is often found as a facet inside Islamic Girih tiles, of which there are five different rudimentary types. Generally, star...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

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Persia, Turkey and further east. Complex Mosaic patterns also known as Girih are popular forms of architectural art in many Muslim cultures. Tomb of...

Moorish Mamluk Features Ablaq Alfiz Arabesque Arabic dome Banna'i Gardens Girih Horseshoe arch Howz Hypostyle Islamic calligraphy Islamic geometric patterns...

special right triangle. A 2007 paper in the journal Science suggested that girih tiles possessed properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline...