Arabic Fourfold
A four-fold star-and-cross figure repeated across the plane. Drawn from the carved ceilings and tile floors of mosque architecture.
Star patterns, Girih tiling, zellige, and the wider Islamic and Mediterranean geometric tradition.
A four-fold star-and-cross figure repeated across the plane. Drawn from the carved ceilings and tile floors of mosque architecture.
Stepped marble veining abstracted into a precise four-fold tile — a study in negative space at the scale of a single stone slab.
Stars and straps interlocking across the plane — the geometric strapwork that runs through Islamic architecture from Morocco to Central Asia.
A six-fold lattice of pierced grilles — the dense geometric weave that runs through Islamic latticework and Japanese kumiko.
Two complementary geometric figures sharing a single six-fold field — a study in how two patterns can occupy the same plane without crowding each other.
The ogee — the doubled-S arch of a Moorish gateway — pulled into a trellis that fills the plane.
A dense lattice of interlocking stars — the geometric strapwork that runs through Islamic latticework and Renaissance pavement design.