Products

Traditionally, geometrical designs in the context of Islamic art have been applied to a great variety of objects, such as bowls, drinking vessels, wooden chests, fabrics etc. For many centuries, geometrical design has been the most common and obvious way to decorate objects and buildings in Islamic societies.

The range of products that can be seen in this shop are a continuation, but also a re-invigoration of the design tradition of applying Islamic geometrical design to everyday products. All the designs used are based on traditional patterns from all parts of the Islamic world. The geometrical compositions and designs have been made using the same traditional design techniques as Islamic craftsmen have been using for centuries.

Miniature Screens

Based on a fivefold design from Bukhara, this minature steel screen, coated in a semi-gloss back finish, is available with a base or without a base. The screen with base can be angled manually, the screen without a base is ideal for hanging in front of, for example, a window.

height: 23 cm width: 18cm

Screen with a base

Screen without a base

£27.95

Mugs

full-colour Islamic geometrical designs printed on a dishwasher-proof china mug

height: 9.5 cm diameter: 8cm

Balkh

Isfahan

Yazd

£6.95

Cards

These full-colour greeting cards are printed on high quality paper and feature contemporary watercolour compositions based on traditional geometric designs from the Islamic world. The designs are designed and drawn by hand, using the traditional techniques and tools. Inspiration comes from all parts of the Islamic world, the cards that are featured here come from Mamluk Cairo, Seljuk Anatolia, Nasrid Andalucia, Morocco and Iran.

If you like these cards but would prefer to have a card that is exclusively designed for you, why not contact me for a quote

Isfahan

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Located in Iran. Capital of the Safavids in the 16th century. Famous for its Islamic architecture and 16th century Islamic town planning under Safavid sultan Shah Abbas I.

Konya

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Located in Anatolia, Turkey. Historically known as Iconium. Capital of the Rum Seljuks from 1097 to 1243. Location of the tomb of Rumi, Sufi master.

Cordoba

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Located in Andalucia, Spain. For centuries it was considered to be the most civilized city in Europe; a center for learning and famed for its culture of tolerance. Birthplace of the philosophers Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Maimonides and Seneca.

card & envelope

£1.75

Qaytbay

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Geometric design from a plaster panel on the sabil-kuttab of Mamluk sultan al-Asraf Qaytbay (completion 1447AD), behind the al-Azhar mosque, Cairo.
Sultan Qaytbay was one of the last Mamluk rulers, he was responsible for a revival of arts and architecture.

Marrakech

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Located in southern Morocco. Founded in 1062. Famed for its Kutubiyya mosque ('mosque of the booksellers'), built around 1160 by the Almohads.

card & envelope

£1.75