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Please note:

This Foundation Level Course is for beginners who want to start learning Islamic Geometric Pattern Art. The course will cover fourfold and sixfold patterns

Course curriculum

  • 01

    Zoom Meeting Links

    • Meeting Links
  • 02

    Welcome to the course!

    • A message from your instructor

    • How to use this course

    • Zoom meeting recording 1

    • Links to useful videos
  • 03

    Let's get started! Week 1

    • Zoom meeting recording 2

    • Constructing a square video

  • 04

    Week 2

    • Zoom meeting recording 3

    • Drawing your first pattern

    • Other videos (analysis of the first pattern)

    • Other videos (Proportion an relation)
  • 05

    Week 3

    • Zoom meeting recording 4

    • PDF file for the basic pattern Family A

    • PDF file for the basic pattern Family B

    • Assignment week 3
  • 06

    Week 4

    • Zoom meeting recording 5

    • Drawing three fourfold pattern

    • TessellationPDF files

    • Useful links

    • Assignment
  • 07

    Week 5

    • Zoom meeting recording 6

    • Assignment
  • 08

    Week 6

    • Zoom meeting recording 7

    • Download Lesson 6 PDF files

    • Useful Links

  • 09

    Week 7

    • Zoom meeting recording 8

    • Download Lesson 7 PDF files
  • 10

    Week 8

    • Zoom meeting recording 9

    • Sunday Second Zoom meeting recording 8

    • Download Lesson 8 PDF file 1

    • Download Lesson 8 PDF file 2

    • Download Lesson 8 PDF file 3

    • Download Lesson 8 PDF file 4
  • 11

    Week 9

    • Sunday Second Zoom meeting recording 9

    • Download Lesson 9 PDF file 5

    • Download Lesson 9 PDF file 6

    • Download Lesson 9 PDF file 7

    • Download Lesson 9 PDF file 8
  • 12

    week 10

    • Zoom meeting recording 10

    • Download Lesson 10 PDF file construct the combined rectangle

    • Lesson 10 pattern 1 PDF file

    • Lesson 10 developing the patter PDF
  • 13

    Week 11

    • Zoom meeting extra lesson

    • Developing patterns by changing angles

    • Pattern developed by changing the angles
  • 14

    week 12

    • Zoom meeting

    • PDF pattern 1

    • PDF pattern 2
  • 15

    Tell us what you thought of:

    • Tell us what you thought of:

you will also learn the following:

In addition, in this course

  • Traditional Method

    You will learn the traditional and inherited techniques handed down by successive generations of craftsmen, by drawing the patterns by hand. With just compass and ruler.

  • Develop your skill

    The course will cover developing the skill of reading the patterns and drawings. This vital skill will help students to decipher and analyse patterns.

  • Different patterns

    The course will cover wide selection of fourfold, fivefold and six fold patterns found across the Islamic world.

  • Downloadable PDF files

    In each lesson, students will be able to download PDF files covering the topics discussed in that session. This will provide the participants with a permanent reference for their work.

Testimonials

“İslami geometri alanında geleneksel yöntemi her ayrıntısıyla öğreten bir eğitim seti, ben tezhip sanatçısıyım ve eserlerime uyguladığım geometrik desenlerin altyapısını bilerek tasarım ve uygulama yapmamda çok yardımcı oldu. İstifade ettim, Hocama teşekkür ederim.”

Tezhip Sanatçısıyım, Islamic Illumination Artist

Zeynep Bilgin

“Throughout my career as a mathematician, l have had so many different classes about Islamic Geometric Pattern but after taking Mr. Aljanabi’s course in IDC, l have comprehended the general principles of these wonderful patterns and have discovered the mathematical backgrounds that these patterns based on. Having finished the course, I am more confident analysing new patterns and even the complex ones. The most I liked of this course is that the lesson pages are well planned and visually explained that make it easy even for intermediate English speakers to follow along.”

Mathematician

Naile Hajjar

“دورة تعليمية تشمل جميع خطوات الطريقة التقليدية في رسم الزخارف الهندسية الإسلامية، من خلال أخذ جميع النظم في الاعتبار لتطوير قدرة الرسم والتحكم في الزخارف و تعطي القدرة لإجراء تحليل رياضي لتلك الزخارف ايضا. وبما أنني فنانة في التذهيب لذلك أستفيد من هذه التصاميم بشكل كبير”