Alhambra, Mirador de Lindaraja

Two adjacent mosaic panels in each of the four corners of the Mirador de Lindaraja. Colours are: honey-brown for the central stars of the 9- and 12-rosettes, black for the petals of the 12-rosettes, blue or green for the petals of the 9-rosettes, purple for the interstitial petals, and white for the remaining tiles. Because the smaller petals are all exactly the same size and shape, this has led to errors in some places, where the wrong colours have been used. Since these mosaic panels were put together face down, such errors could only be seen once they were ready to be lifted into place. Elsewhere in the Alhambra this pattern occurs as window grilles round the lantern of the Sala de los Abencerrajes; as a wooden ceiling over the north part of the Sala del Mexuar; and as the middle of three window grilles over the arch linking the Patio de los Arrayanes and the Sala de la Barca. It is also fairly common in other buildings surviving from Moorish Spain.

• Gold star pattern(photo). Dynamic build of this pattern. Perspective view of this pattern.
• The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 10°.
• Contains one regular two-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 80°.
• Contains one regular 9-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 80°.
• Contains one regular 12-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60°.
• There are 7 non-regular reflective tiles.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 333 polygons.

• postcard (Ornamental panel from a Koran, Morocco AD 1568, British Library, or.1405,f.400a.) of Not specific. Personal Communication, Information sent to the author, 21 century . [pc]
• Page 193 of S J Abas and A S Salman. Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, World Scientific, 1993. ISBN 981021704. [abas] {Very many patterns in black and white.}
• Page 42 of Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin. 376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles, Dover, 1868. ISBN 048626146. [cahier]

• Wade photo SPA 1008
• Wade photo SPA 1821

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