Day: October 29, 2014

Islamic decoration have developed over the centuries and makes great use of geometric patterns. Many of these derived from various earlier cultures: Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Persian, and Central Asian.They are usually distinguished from the arabesque, the term for decoration in Islamic art based on curving and branching vegetal forms. But sometimes foliage and linear geometric patterns are combined in a single design, and some purely abstract linear patterns adopt designs that…

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