Arabic art
Zellige
Zellige (Arabic: الزليج; also zelige or zellij) is mosaic tilework made from individually chiseled geometric tiles set into a plaster…
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Yeseria
Yeseria is a technique of carving plaster used by the Spanish Moors like also by the post-Reconsquista's Mudéjar architecture. Plaster…
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Girih
Girih (Persian: گره, "knot") is a decorative Islamic geometric artform used in architecture and handicraft objects, consisting of angled lines…
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Western arabesque
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and…
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Nagash painting
Majlis painting, also called nagash painting, is the decoration of the majlis or front parlor of traditional Arabic homes in…
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