Alhambra, Torre de las Infantas

Ceramic mosaic panels on jambs of arches into the side chambers of the Torre de las Infantas. Colours are white, black, honey-brown, blue and green.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• There is one non-regular reflective tile and one reflective pair.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 45 polygons.

• vol5, page 54 (Isfahan Chahar Bagh madraseh, Iran) of Mahmood Maher al-Naqsh. Design and execution of drawing in Iranian tilework, Islamic period, Reza Abbasi Museum, 1983. [iran] {Good collection of Iranian patterns, text in Persian}
• Page 126 (Window grille at Alhambra (probably incorrect)) of Keith Critchlow. Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach, Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN 050027071. [critchlow] {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.}
• Page 300 of S J Abas and A S Salman. Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, World Scientific, 1993. ISBN 981021704. [abas] {Very many patterns in black and white.}

• Wade photo SPA 0606

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