Drawings Diagrams & Analyses / The Design and Execution of Drawings in Iranian Tilework / NC 0011, 04 - 62 Solid

Catalog Number NC 0011
Publication The Design and Execution of Drawings in Iranian Tilework
Author Mahmood Maher al-Naqsh
Published 1983

In this pattern we find no pentagons either in the underlying grid, but irregular hexagons and octagons sometimes referred to as bow-tie and bobbin shapes. These can be arranged in many different ways, with the parts of pattern they each contain corresponding nicely, as they do in the next design.