Jewels and Flowers - 20 Sep 2025

Jewels

Wait and see. I found another pattern online, and realised it was very simple. Or did I find it in a book? I can’t remember, anyway it is ‘just’ a hexagonal-square-triangle tiling where you join the midpoints of the lines. Easier to show than describe:

Pencil sketch of Islamic design

Ok no I remember now, I saw it online. I tried to find it in one of my more comprehensive books, but could not find the exact version here.

Flowers

Well, after making a woven version of the pattern with silver ink, I wanted to fill in the empty spaces, so I put flowers in there.

Pencil sketch of Islamic design

Then in the smaller gaps, some inked pink shapes. It shows how imprecise those parts are, given how ‘twisted’ the purple jewel shapes are.