Arts and Crafts of the Islamic Lands: Eight-Fold Patterns
The book Arts and Crafts of the Islamic Lands, written by experts from the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, contains the most comprehensive instructional manual on Islamic geometric patterns in the English language. In an extended series of online courses, students will work their way through the pages of this outstanding chapter written by Paul Marchant. Each week, students will learn a variety of drawing approaches and patterns to support and supplement those presented in the text.
This course focuses on the eight-fold family. Over seven sessions, participants will engage deeply with the language of eight in geometric patterns. Visual presentations will show the patterns in architectural and craft contexts.
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The book Arts and Crafts of the Islamic Lands, written by experts from the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, contains the most comprehensive instructional manual on Islamic geometric patterns in the English language. In an extended series of online courses, students will work their way through the pages of this outstanding chapter written by Paul Marchant. Each week, students will learn a variety of drawing approaches and patterns to support and supplement those presented in the text.
This course focuses on the eight-fold family. Over seven sessions, participants will engage deeply with the language of eight in geometric patterns. Visual presentations will show the patterns in architectural and craft contexts.