Islamic Geometry workshop – Create Lates Festival

Recreating Islamic Geometric Patterns – using a compass and straightedge

In this session, we will recreate some of these historical patterns using a compass and straightedge. The same tools that would have been used by countless geometers & artisans for centuries across the Islamic Lands. We will draw & colour an eightfold pattern and see how they relate to a wider system of shapes and patterns all drawn from the same underlying grid of lines and circles.