Tiling References

Brian Wichmann

Publications listing

[abas] S J Abas and A S Salman.

Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns. World Scientific. 1993. ISBN 981021704 {Very many patterns in black and white.} *

[akber] Mirza Akber.

Persian decoration of Mirza Akber. Victoria and Albert Museum, NAL. 1898. {Pressmark VA.1898.0001} *

[aslanapa] Oktay Aslanapa.

Turkish art and architecture. London : Faber. 1971. ISBN 057108781 {422 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm}

[backhouse] J Backhouse.

The Lindisfarne Gospels. Phaidon press. 1981. ISBN 071482461 {A few Celtic patterns in colour.} Fuller version available on Internet.

[bain] G Bain.

Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Constable, London. 1977. ISBN 009461830 {Important book on Celtic art.}

[bourgoin] J Bourgoin.

Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design. Dover. 1879. ISBN 048622924 {Classical book of around 200 hand-produced patterns, in back and white.} *

[briggs] Martin S. Briggs.

Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestin. Oxford, Clarendon Press, Pressmark 32.F.79. 1924. {255p} *

[burckhardt] Titus Burckhardt.

Moorish Culture in Spain. London, George Allen and Unwin. 1972. ISBN 004946008 *

[cahier] Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin.

376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles. Dover. 1868. ISBN 048626146

[calvert] A. F. Calvert.

Moorish remains in Spain. London, New York, J. Lane, Pressmark 18.F.85. 1906. {586 pages} Available on Internet. *

[calvert2] A. F. Calvert.

The Alhambra. London : G. Philip, Pressmark 18.C.52. 1904. {586 pages} Available on Internet. *

[castera] Jean-Marc Castéra.

Arabesques: Decorative Art in Morocco. ACR Edition, Paris. 1999. ISBN 286770124 {Beautiful book.} *

[clevenot] Dominique Clévenot.

Ornament and decoration in Islamic architecture. Thames & Hudson, Pressmark 604.AB.0178. 2000. ISBN 050051032 {Photographs by Gérard Degeorge} *

[copple] Trewin Copplestone.

World architecture : an illustrated history. London: Hamlyn. 1966. {348p, text by Seton Lloyd}

[creswell] K A C Creswell.

The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. Oxford, 2 volumes. 1952/59. *

[critchlow] Keith Critchlow.

Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach. Thames and Hudson. 1976. ISBN 050027071 {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.} *

[d-avennes] Prisse d'Avennes.

Arabic Art in Color. Dover. 1877. ISBN 048623658 {Contains 25 geometric patterns in colour, and gives the source in most cases more on the Internet.} Fuller version available on Internet. *

[dawes] S J Dawes and B A Wichmann.

A New Class of Tilings with Two Prototiles. Visual Mathematics, Vol 3, No 4.. 2001. {Revises CD/booklet.} Available on Internet.

[degeorge] Gérard Degeorge.

Ornament and decoration in Islamic architecture. London : Thames & Hudson. 2000. ISBN 208010876 {224 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.} *

[dury] Carel J. du Ry.

Art of Islam. New York: Abrams. 1971. ISBN 081098014 {263p} *

[dye] Daniel Sheets Dye.

Chinese Lattice Designs. Dover. 1937. ISBN 048623096 {Important book topic.}

[elsaid] I El-Said and A Parman.

Geometric concepts in Islamic Art. World of Islam Festival Publishing Co. 1976. ISBN 090503503 {Gives sources of several interesting patterns.} *

[elsaid2] Issam El-Said, edited by Tarek El-Bouri .

Islamic Art and Architecture: The system of Geometric Design. Garnet, Reading, UK. 1993. ISBN 187393845 *

[escher] J L Locher (editor).

Escher - The Complete Graphic Work. Thames and Hudson. 1992. ISBN 050027696 {A very useful source book.}

[fernandez] Antonio Fernández-Puertas.

The Alhambra: Volume I - from the ninth century to Yusuf I (1354). SAQI Books. 1999. ISBN 086356466 {Beautiful book.} *

[field1] Robert Field.

Geometric Patterns from Roman Mosaics. Tarquin Publications. 1996. ISBN 090621263 {Gives sources of several interesting Roman patterns.}

[field2] Robert Field.

Geometric Patterns from Churches and Cathedrals. Tarquin Publications. 1996. ISBN 189961813

[field4] Robert Field.

Geometric Patterns from Islamic Art and Architecture. Tarquin Publications. 1998. ISBN 189961822 *

[gailiunas] Paul Gailiunas.

Spiral Tilings. Visual Mathematics. 2000. {Vol 2, No 3} Available on Internet.

[gands] B Grünbaum and G C Shephard.

Tilings and Patterns. W H Freeman. 1987. ISBN 071671193 {Most important work in this area.}

[gands2] B Grünbaum and G C Shephard.

Interlace Patterns in Islamic and Moorish Art. Leonardo, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, pp. 331-339. 1992. Copyright controlled copy on Internet. *

[glassner] Andrew Glassner.

Andrew Glassner's Notebook: Recreational Computer Graphics. Morgan Kaufmann. 1999. ISBN 155860598 {420pp}

[gluck] Heinrich Glück and Ernst Diez.

Die Kunst des Islam. Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag. 1925. {pp616} *

[golomb1] S W Golomb.

Polyominoes. Revised and expanded second edition. Princeton University Press. 1994. ISBN 069102444

[golomb2] S W Golomb.

Tiling rectangles with Polyominoes. The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 18, No 2. 1996. pp38-47.. 1994.

[grafton] Carol Belanger Grafton.

Decorative Tile Designs in full Color. Dover. 1992. {92 High quality colour plates; dated 1870-1930.}

[grube] Ernst J. Grube.

The world of Islam. London, Hamlyn, Pressmark 21.Z.6. 1966. {176p} *

[hankin2] E Hanbury Hankin.

Some Difficult Saracenic Designs II. Mathematical Gazette, Vol 18, pp165-168. 1934. {Considers one pattern in detail.} Available on Internet.

[hautex] Hautecoeur Louis.

Les mosquées du Caire. Paris, E. Leroux. 1932. {with Gaston Wiet, pp247} *

[herzfeld1] E Herzfeld.

Die Ausgrabungen von Sammarra I.. Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik, Berlin. 1923.

[hessemer] F M Hessemer.

Historic Designs and Patterns in Color. Dover. about 1840. ISBN 048626425 {This collection is unusual in giving the source for almost all the patterns.}

[hill] Derek Hill.

Islamic architecture and its decoration, A.D. 800-1500.... Faber and Faber, Pressmark 35.C.183. 1964. ISBN 050051032 {With an introductory text by Oleg Grabar} *

[hill2] Derek Hill and Lucien Golvin.

Islamic architecture in North Africa : a photographic survey. Faber and Faber. 1976. ISBN 057110460 {167pp}

[hrbas] Hrbas, Miloš and Edgar Knobloch.

The art of Central Asia. London, Hamlyn. 1965. {3-27, [10] p. front., illus., 136 plates (incl. 40 col.) 28 cm.} *

[humbert] Claud Humbert.

Islamic Ornamental Design. Faber and Faber. 1980. ISBN 057111587 {Useful, contains several tilings.} *

[iran] .

Arabic collection from Iran. . about 1990. {Good collection of Iranian patterns} *

[jones] Owen Jones.

The Grammar of Ornament. Dover. 1856. ISBN 048625463 {Excellent book with 100 colour plates, with many containing several tiling patterns.} Fuller version available on Internet.

[jones2] Owen Jones and Jules Goury.

Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra.... London. 1837. {2 v. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 60 cm.} *

[klarner] David A. Klarner.

Packing a Rectangle with Congruent N-ominoes. JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY 7, 107--115. 1969.

[lee] A. J. Lee.

Islamic star patterns. Muqarnas vol. 4. pp182-197 Pressmark PP.8.M. 1987. {Important paper on star patterns} Available on Internet. *

[maldonado] Basilio Pavón Maldonado.

El arte hispanomusulman en su decoración geométrica. Madrid : Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura. 1975. ISBN 846006881 {461p, 140 plates} *

[marshall] William Rex Marshall.

Packing Rectangles with Congruent Polyominoes. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 77, 181-192. 1997.

[martin] George E Martin.

Polyominoes. The Mathematical Association of America. 1991. ISBN 088385501

[murphy] J C Murphy.

The Arabian architecture of Spain. V & A Pressmark GC 505.F.139. about 1850. {The best publication found on the Alhambra in providing high quality patterns.} *

[myers] Joseph S. Myers.

Tiling with Regular Star Polygons. Eureka 56 (March 2004), 20-27. 2004. Available on Internet.

[neal] D S Neal.

Roman mosaics in Britain. Society for the Promotion of Roman studies. 1981. ISBN 090776414 {Beautiful publication.}

[necipoglu] Gülru Necipoğlu.

The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture. The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. 1995. ISBN 089236335 {Beautiful publication.} *

[ogel] Ögel Semra .

Anadolu Selçuklulari'nin ta¸s tezyinati. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi. 1966. {192p}

[orton] A Orton and S M Flower.

Analysis of an ancient tessellation. Mathematical Gazette, Vol 73, pp297-301. 1989. {Considers individual pattern} Available on Internet.

[paccard] Paccard, André.

Traditional Islamic craft in Moroccan architecture. Saint-Jorioz, France. 1980. ISBN 286486003 {2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.} *

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[pope] Arthur Upham Pope.

Persian Architecture. Thames and Hudson. 1965. {Good source book, but weak on geometric tiling patterns} *

[pope2] Arthur Upham Pope.

A survey of Persian art from prehistoric times to the present. OUP. 1938. {In six volumes} *

[racinet] Auguste Racinet.

Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament. Dover. 1886. ISBN 048626096

[reid] Michael Reid.

Tiling rectangles and half strips with congruent polyominoes. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, 80, pp106-123. 1997.

[rempel] Lazar Izrailevich Rempel.

Arkhitekturnyi ornament Uzbekistana: .... Tashkent. 1961. {602p} *

[rice] David Talbot Rice.

Islamic Art. Thames and Hudson. 1965. ISBN 050020150 *

[rigby1] John Rigby and Brian Wichmann.

Some patterns using specific tiles. Visual Mathematics, Vol 8, No 2.. 2006. Available on Internet.

[scerrato] Umberto Scerrato.

Momuments of Civilization: Islam. Cassell, London. 1976. ISBN 030429695 {First published in Italy in 1972} *

[schatt1] D Schattschneider.

M C Escher - Visions of Symmetry. W H Freeman and Company. 1990. ISBN 071672352

[seherr] Sonia P, Seherr-Thoss.

Design and color in Islamic architecture; Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey. Smithsonian Institution. 1968. {312p} *

[smith1] M. B. Smith.

Material for a corpus of early Iranian Islamic architecture... Ars Islamica. 1937. {IV, 7-41} *

[stevens] Peter S Stevens.

Handbook of regular patterns: an introduction to symmetry in two.... MIT Press. 1984. ISBN 026269088 {Illustrations in black and white}

[stierlin] Henri Stierlin.

Islam: Early Architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba. Volume 1. Taschen. 1996. ISBN 382288561 *

[stock] Daniel Stock and Brian Wichmann.

Odd Spiral tilings. The Mathematics Magazine. Vol 73, No 5 pp339-346. 2000. {Spiral tilings with an odd number of arms} Copyright controlled copy on Internet.

[stronge] Susan Stronge.

Indian Architectural Designs. Harry N Abrams, Inc. 1989. ISBN 081093905 {A collection of 30 screen designs from the Victoria and Albert Museum.}

[useinov] Mikaėl Aleskerovich Useĭnov.

Pamiatniki azerbaǐdzhanskogo zodchestva. Pamiatniki zodchestva narodov CCPR, Moscow. 1951. {162p} *

[volwah] Andreas Volwahsen.

Living architecture: Indian. London, Macdonald & Co. 1969. ISBN 035602997 {192p} *

[wade] David Wade.

Pattern in Islamic Art. Studio Vista. 1976. ISBN 028970719 {Some beautiful coloured patterns, but source not given.} *

[wahhab] Hasan `Abd-al-Wahhab.

Tarikh al-masajid al-athariyah. Cairo, 2 vols in Arabic. 1946. {The History of ancient Egyptian mosques} *

[wich2] B A Wichmann.

The World of Patterns. World Scientific. 2001. ISBN 981024619 {Only new patterns ascribed to this.}

[wich3] Brian Wichmann and John Rigby.

Yemeni Squares. Leonardo, MIT Press, To be published. 2009. Copyright controlled copy on Internet. *

[wilber] Donald Newton Wilber.

The architecture of Islamic Iran; the Il Khānid period. Princeton University Press. 1955. {208p} *

[wilson] Eva Wilson.

Islamic Designs. British Museum. 1988. ISBN 071418066 {26 geometric designs with the source given in many cases.} *

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