Khamsah of Nizami, Herat

T00359 = data13/F49
data13/F49
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Geometry

References

Publications referenced:
  1. Figure 49, Plate 26 (Khamsah of Nizami, Herat, Afghanistan, Central Asia) of I El-Said and A Parman. Geometric concepts in Islamic Art, World of Islam Festival Publishing Co, 1976. ISBN 090503503. [elsaid] {Gives sources of several interesting patterns.}
  2. PP Class 110, [p6,c6,c2], IH Class 34 of S J Dawes and B A Wichmann. A New Class of Tilings with Two Prototiles, Visual Mathematics, Vol 3, No 4., 2001. [dawes] {Revises CD/booklet.} Available on Internet.
  3. Plate 33a of Eva Wilson. Islamic Designs, British Museum, 1988. ISBN 071418066. [wilson] {26 geometric designs with the source given in many cases.}

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