Wednesday 18 April 2018

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:




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