Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design: 200 Plates (Dover Pictorial Archive)

I am a serious free motion quilter and am always looking for inspiration on quilt stitching patterns that cover an entire quilt. Arabic designs lend themselves to this purpose perfectly! They are easily translated from the book because they are shown on triangle grids. How I found out about this book is through my daughter, who at the time was a college art major. This book is required for many college art courses. The designs are timeless and can get any artist thinking in another direction.

Great

Shows that exceptional beauty of Arabic geometrical illustrations!

Had this book in early 70's and used some of the pattern's in leatherwork. Had plan's for wood project's too. Lost book in storage and am very happy to have back. Had many ideas through the years missing this book and don't know where to pick up now. On a trip to Morroco showed the book to a local craftsman in the Medina of Fez. Wanted him to do some work with a particle design. He almost attacked me and tried to get hold of the book because as he claimed it contained patterns that where owned by his family. So I had no right to this book..... Gladly ''Sultan'' was there . My trusted companion. Crossbreed , Great Dane/Mastino Napolitano , Aprox. 90+ kg Lost the book in storage ,later though.

This has many patterns and dotted guidelines to show the construction lines. This is an excellent reference guide but would be challenging for beginners to learn how to construct patterns from this book.

Absolutely love Moroccan design. This book just helps me to implement my ideas into actual visual representations of the tiles, etc. My private library will be Moroccan from floor to ceiling as soon as it is done. People will think they have left the U.S. and entered the Marrakesh.

The edition that I received has a printed price of $ 9.95 and here price $ 17.95. At that price, I would have bought a new copy. Maybe, my edition is much older. I felt, I am getting a good deal buying a Used, but acceptable condition book. The cover portrays colored patterns and borders. But, the book is more like a coloring book, only has random patterns, no borders.

This is certainly not a book I would buy if I saw it in advance. All the contents are in black and white and all but about 10 pages are computer generated rough sketches and there is no text. A complete waste of money and the beautiful cover seems irrelevant to the actual contents of the book.