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Islamic Geometric Pattern - Hexagon 3

Islamic Geometric Designs: Laid out

Islamic Geometric Patterns - Hexagon 2

This design is from the Esrefoglu Mosque in Beysehir, Turkey (AD 1297). Once again, I could not find it represented in the wild. What I could see was that rather than carved terreacotta, the mosque is covered in glazed tiles predominately using a turquoise colour.  

This design starts like the other one, with a dynamic hexagon:

Colour added with attention to how each space works with what will be its neighbour: 

And repeated (see all the boxes?):

Adding a little complexity:

And colour. This was really tricky. I threw out lots of trials that turned out to be errors. 

 And repeated:

Islamic Geometric Patterns - Hexagon 1

This design is from the Mustansiriya Madrasa in Bagdad, Iraq - built in AD1227. While I can find photos of the Madrasa I cannot find photos of this particular design. What is clear is that the design work is done as carving in terracotta; colour is not involved. 

First, following directions:

Showing the infrastructure: 

The red lines show the repeatable shape:

The repeatable hexagon isolated:

The experiment with colour begins:

How it works out repeated - and then I have an idea about the centre space, which is confirmed by a little more investigation - and the colour experiment continues:

Single hexagon, with colour:

Copied and placed as tiles. 

It might be hard to find the phone number

A very slim yellow pages phone book was delivered to our house last week. I won't be using it to find phone numbers.