Arabic Fourfold

A four-fold star locked into a cross, repeated edge to edge until the whole plane fills in. The figure comes straight from the tile floors and carved ceilings of mosque architecture, where star-and-cross panels were a way of working out infinity in stone and plaster.

The geometry has held up for a thousand years because it works at every scale. The same drawing reads as a courtyard floor, a window screen, or a carved ceiling panel. At jewelry scale, the star tightens into a single pendant face — the cross arms become the silhouette, and what was once an architectural field becomes one piece of metal that sits flat against the skin.