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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 3 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Nearly 200 examples exhibit the wide range of Islamic art, including hexagon and octagon designs, combinations of stars and rosettes, and many variations on other geometric patterns. Twenty-eight examples from traditional sources in Cairo and Damascus include sanctuary doors, openwork windows, and inlaid marble pavements and ceilings.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | J. Bourgoin | | Paperback: | 204 pages | | Publisher: | Dover Publications | | Publication Date: | June 01, 1973 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0486229246 | | Product Length: | 10.93 inches | | Product Width: | 8.13 inches | | Product Height: | 0.52 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.21 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.87 inches | | Package Width: | 8.11 inches | | Package Height: | 0.55 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.23 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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41 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 Geometrical Designs in Black and White May 04, 2000
By Alexandra Ceely
This book is full of different patterns for use by craftsmen. Unfortunately, it has no color illustrations, and no information about sources for these designs. It is more like a coloring book than a resource for designs. However, it does have guidelines within each design to show how the design was created, and I find that useful.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 must have May 12, 2003
By Kaes Ali
Arabic Geometrical Patterns are not so easy to find, not to mention understand their knowhows, this book clearly displays a very wide array of examples with simple step by step instructions displayed on the same platform, i was searching for a book like that, this book is quite enough, it is not for novice beginners though, you need to have some background in such subject as the text and discription for each chapter is very limited, and the book is totally black and white, so you have to figureout what color combinations are suitable. But the layout of the book makes reprouducing the wounderful examples easy.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Geometry made easy May 21, 2001
By Shalizeh
"shalizeh2"
This book has an extensive variety of geometric patterns that can be use by a Math teacher as well as an Art teacher. The designs are easy to reproduce. The display of the designs are big enough for students to try out and experiment. I greatly recommend it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent, but not a book for a beginner in Islamic design Mar 01, 2011
By Malcolm Schosha
This book, by Jules Bourgoin, is justly famous for its treatment of geometric pattern in Islamic art, but it is not a good book to begin a study of the subject. If you are a beginner to the subject, and want a book to get you started drawing the geometric based Islamic designs, the best place to start is probably Eric Broug's 'Islamic Geometric Patterns.'
There are no surviving Islamic source texts describing how Islamic patterns were actually created. Perhaps none were ever written. All the books now available on the subject are largely surmise. Bourgoin's book, first published in 1879, is one of the earliest written on the subject. Another early book is E. H. Hankin's 'The Drawing of Geometric Patterns in Saracenic Art', which was published in 1925. Bourgoin and Hankin had very different views on how Islamic geometric patterns were designed. Hankin thought that the patterns were designed using only a compass and and straight edge, and that has become the majority view. Bourgoin, on the other hand, thought that these patterns were mostly designed using grids, an approach that probably was also used by Celtic artists in designing such works as the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels. If Bourgoin, or Hankin, was right, I can not say. Both methods seem to work, and each as some advantages. But it is important to understand that different authors take different approaches, because if you do not understand that you may become confused over the discrepancies.
A look through Bourgoin's book will show that each pattern is placed over a grid (shown in dotted lines), and each different pattern is developed from the grid it uses. That grid is the foundation of the pattern. Although one grid may be used for many different patterns, the use of a different grid would have to result in a different pattern. Bourgoin's book shows the grids he used, but there are no explanations. The reader just has to figure it out.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Disapointed May 22, 2009
By Dannie Chapman
"moose"
There are many nice patterns in this book ... But no step by step instructions on how to make the patterns. I found this book to be of no use to me.
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