Islamic Peer Review

I first reviewed Lindsay's blog on the Islamic time period. I noticed that some of her modern day applications in textiles were from the same designer that I found. She depicted the horseshoe arch motif in her applications. It is repeated on wallpaper as well as in the textiles on a throw pillow. The Mosque of Sultan Ahmed is a great church to talk about that reflects the Islamic architecture style. 20, 000 handmade tiles is unreal to think about existing in that building. She also hit it right on the head, explaining there were no representational designs. This means no animals, or people, or basically anything that stands for something were depicted, only geometric figures or shapes were included in the designs. 

I also had the chance to read Megan's blog on Islamic design. Megan talked about the tile work and how precious stones and metals were incorporated in to the design at this time. Many worked with marble and inlaid these other materials in to the marble itself. She also brought up that the Islamic people were the first to incorporate the horseshoe arch in to their architecture. This is widely used today and we see it everywhere. There is a lot of architecture around us that incorporates arches, and we never stop to look what kind of arch is really is. I also love her modern day application pictures. Any of the Islamic design aspects are beautiful to me.