Moorish pattern design

Alan Carroll · Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 256 Location: New York City

I posted a ton of reference images with detailed line drawings of Moorish patterns on my blog, for those interested in this incredible artform.

http://surfacefragments.blogspot.com/2010/10/moorish-remains-in-spain.html

lisascenic · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:32 am Post subject:

Lovely! I grew up coloring in the Dover Islamic Tile coloring books.

And I've gotten to do a few projects along these lines. They are some of my favorites!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascenic/73970924/

KathyFakesIt · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

"practice before you dive into a large project"

THat's funny coming from you because you do everything huge!

kawear · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:02 am Post subject:

Those are so cool.

stencilist · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:58 am Post subject:

Gorgeous! Thank you!

Alan Carroll · Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 256 Location: New York City

Wow, Lisa, that floor stencil is amazing!

Here are a couple of those images I posted. They're all from a book called Moorish Remains in Spain, 1905, by Alber Calvert.

They are all Jpegs that can be taken into Illustrator and used as templates to create your own stencils or artwork.

lynne · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 4971 Location: san francisco

thanks, alan!

i see one or 50 there i can actually use!!

Philip · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject:

Alan,
You might be interested in The Moorish room at my local arts museum and arts gallery - The Russell Cotes Museum - www.russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk.
I have some interesting information about the artist that created the decorations to the house in the 1929`s but it is in PDF format and I do not know how to attach here. The artist , John Thomas, used designs from Owen Jones, Grammar of Ornament. There is a lot of original marbling and graining in the house and my late friend, Don Gray, did some restoration work there many years ago.
The gallery itself has a fabulous collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

Alan Carroll · Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 256 Location: New York City

Thanks for that link, Philip.

You mentioned Owen Jones; you might already be aware that his entire book The Grammar of Ornament, is available online for free!

You may have to play around a little to get the hang of the navigation tool (I did), but it's all there in high res.

Enjoy!

http://www.frescography.com/taschen/images/data/

Pat · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:02 am Post subject:

Very nice.

Elena · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 6283 Location: Murphy, NC

Alan I have a whole folder in my favorites dedicated to your blog. I'm your fan forever