An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns.
Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world evolved a multitude of styles applied to a great variety of media but always with unifying factors that make them instantly recognizable. Harmony [...]
From the geometric patterns of Islamic art and design to the swirling floral motifs of Celtic art, "Designa" brings together six elegant and insightful short volumes from the Wooden Books series on art and design including "Islamic Design," "Celtic Pattern," "Curves," "The Golden Section," "Symmetry[...]
A new paperback edition of a primer on three-dimensional space.
Number, Geometry, Music, Heaven. Four bestselling Wooden Books titles dealing with the numerical Liberal Arts are here bound in one volume: 'Sacred Number' and 'Sacred Geometry' both by Miranda Lundy, 'The Elements of Music: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony' by Dr Jason Martineau, and 'Bender Heaven: The [...]
Technical Secrets of The Traditional Visual Arts. 'Designa' brings together six bestselling visual arts titles, each of them a bestseller in their own right: 'Celtic Art', 'Islamic Design', 'Curves', 'Perspective', 'Symmetry' and 'The Golden Section'. This is an awesome collection of world-class [...]