Islamic wallpaper

Islamic wallpaper, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

A wallpaper design drawn from Islamic geometry, the interlocking stars and eight-point rosettes that repeat forever without a centre. I printed it up across a run of colourways, red and blue on cream, a busier version in yellow and red, the same tessellation reading quiet or loud depending on the inks.

Islamic pattern is where a lot of my geometry comes from in the first place, the discipline of a shape that locks into itself and carries on in every direction. Printing it by hand, screen by screen, colour over colour, is a way of learning how the old patterns are built by having to build one myself.

Islamic wallpaper, Moderate Studio journal, 2016
Islamic wallpaper, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

Part of The Pattern Works.