Zellij
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title:
Zellij
text:
Zellij, also spelled zillij or zellige, is a style of mosaic tilework made from individually hand-chiseled tile pieces. The pieces were typically of different colours and fitted together to form various patterns on the basis of tessellations, most notably elaborate Islamic geometric motifs such as radiating star patterns composed of various polygons. This form of Islamic art is one of the main characteristics of architecture in the western Islamic world. It is found in the architecture of Morocc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mosaic tile decoration
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellij
date created:
2007-01-03T14:03:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:30:36Z
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