However, examination of medieval Islamic decorations, called girih patterns, reveal plenty of five and ten-fold symmetric patterns that, apparently, do tile a surface.

Medieval Islamic artisans developed a pattern-making process for designing ornate tiled surfaces that allowed them to produce sophisticated patterns not seen in the West until centuries later, a ...

Muslim pattern makers were using highly intricate mathematical and geometrical techniques for creating decorative patterns that were not understood in the western world until well into the 20th ...

12 modern medieval designs. I have always been interested madly in fashion,clothing, and designing since i was a small child. ... and the colour schemes and patterns of the dress they wore, ...

Girih strapwork pattern on an interior archway in the Sultan's Lodge in the Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey (1424 C.E.).

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting subclusters of emanating burials.