"Parlez-Vous Islamic Geometric Design?"

It's a visual language. You can read it, and write it.

In Islamic geometric design, the shapes are the words and the pattern is the sentence. Just like you can’t invent words if you want to communicate, in Islamic geometric design, you can’t just invent shapes. There aren’t that many different shapes but the different ways they can be arranged is almost infinite, just like with word-based languages.

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