| [abas] | S J Abas and A S Salman Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns. World Scientific. 1993. ISBN 981021704 {Very many patterns in black and white.} * |
| [akber] | Mirza Akber Persian decoration of Mirza Akber. Victoria and Albert Museum, NAL. 1898. {Pressmark VA.1898.0001} * |
| [aslanapa] | Oktay Aslanapa Turkish art and architecture. London : Faber. 1971. ISBN 057108781 {422 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm} |
| [backhouse] | J Backhouse The Lindisfarne Gospels. Phaidon press. 1981. ISBN 071482461 {A few Celtic patterns in colour.} Fuller version available on Internet. |
| [bain] | G Bain Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Constable, London. 1977. ISBN 009461830 {Important book on Celtic art.} |
| [bakirer] | Bakırer, Ömür Onüç ve ondördüncü yüzyıllarda Anadolu mihrabları. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. 1976. {Ankara} * |
| [barry] | Michael Barry Colour and symbolism in Islamic architecture. Thames and Hudson. 1996. ISBN 050001711 {315p} * |
| [berchem] | Max van Berchem Muslim Jerusalem: in the work of Max van Berchem. Foundation Max van Berchem. 1982. {Geneve} |
| [betts] | Ian M Betts Spanish tin-glazed tiles from Woking Palace... Surrey Archaeological Collections. 2008. {Vol 94, pp53-69} |
| [blair] | Sheila Blair Cosmophilia: Islamic art from the David Collection. Chestnut Hill, MA. 2006. ISBN 978189285011 {216p} * |
| [bour0] | Jules Bourgoin Les arts arabes. Morel, Paris. 1873. {Earlier work of Bourgoin} Available on Internet. * |
| [bourgoin] | J Bourgoin Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design. Dover. 1879. ISBN 048622924 {Classical book of around 200 hand-produced patterns, in back and white.} Fuller version available on Internet. * |
| [briggs] | Martin S. Briggs Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestin. Oxford, Clarendon Press, Pressmark 32.F.79. 1924. {255p} * |
| [broug] | Eric Broug Islamic Geometric Patters. Thames & Hudson. 2008. ISBN 978050028721 {Elegant drawings} * |
| [burckhardt] | Titus Burckhardt Moorish Culture in Spain. London, George Allen and Unwin. 1972. ISBN 004946008 * |
| [cahier] | Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin 376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles. Dover. 1868. ISBN 048626146 |
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| [clevenot] | Dominique Clévenot Ornament and decoration in Islamic architecture. Thames & Hudson, Pressmark 604.AB.0178. 2000. ISBN 050051032 {Photographs by Gérard Degeorge} * |
| [copple] | Trewin Copplestone World architecture : an illustrated history. London: Hamlyn. 1966. {348p, text by Seton Lloyd} |
| [creswell] | K A C Creswell The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. Oxford, 2 volumes. 1952/59. * |
| [critchlow] | Keith Critchlow Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach. Thames and Hudson. 1976. ISBN 050027071 {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.} * |
| [d-avennes] | Prisse d'Avennes Arabic Art in Color. Dover. 1877. ISBN 048623658 {Contains 25 geometric patterns in colour, and gives the source in most cases more on the Internet.} Fuller version available on Internet. * |
| [dawes] | S J Dawes and B A Wichmann A New Class of Tilings with Two Prototiles. Visual Mathematics, Vol 3, No 4.. 2001. {Revises CD/booklet.} Available on Internet. |
| [degeorge] | Gérard Degeorge Ornament and decoration in Islamic architecture. London : Thames & Hudson. 2000. ISBN 208010876 {224 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.} * |
| [denny] | Walter Denny Gardens of paradise. Ertuğ & Kocabiyik. 1998. {Photos by Ertuğ, Ahmet} * |
| [dury] | Carel J. du Ry Art of Islam. New York: Abrams. 1971. ISBN 081098014 {263p} * |
| [dye] | Daniel Sheets Dye Chinese Lattice Designs. Dover. 1937. ISBN 048623096 {Important book topic.} |
| [elsaid] | I El-Said and A Parman Geometric concepts in Islamic Art. World of Islam Festival Publishing Co. 1976. ISBN 090503503 {Gives sources of several interesting patterns.} * |
| [elsaid2] | Issam El-Said, edited by Tarek El-Bouri Islamic Art and Architecture: The system of Geometric Design. Garnet, Reading, UK. 1993. ISBN 187393845 * |
| [erdmann] | Kurt Erdmann Das anatolische Karavansaray des 13. Jahrhunderts. Berlin. 1961-76. {In 3 volumes} * |
| [escher] | J L Locher (editor) Escher - The Complete Graphic Work. Thames and Hudson. 1992. ISBN 050027696 {A very useful source book.} |
| [ex1995] | Exhibition in 1995 Arte islámico en Granada. Catalogue of an exhibition held 1 Apr. - 30 Sept. 1995. 1995. {Granada} * |
| [fernandez] | Antonio Fernández-Puertas The Alhambra: Volume I - from the ninth century to Yusuf I (1354). SAQI Books. 1999. ISBN 086356466 {Beautiful book.} * |
| [field1] | Robert Field Geometric Patterns from Roman Mosaics. Tarquin Publications. 1996. ISBN 090621263 {Gives sources of several interesting Roman patterns.} |
| [field2] | Robert Field Geometric Patterns from Churches and Cathedrals. Tarquin Publications. 1996. ISBN 189961813 |
| [field4] | Robert Field Geometric Patterns from Islamic Art and Architecture. Tarquin Publications. 1998. ISBN 189961822 * |
| [frettloeh] | Dirk Frettlöh Counting perfect colourings of plane regular tilings. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. 2009. {To be published} Available on Internet. |
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| [gands] | B Grünbaum and G C Shephard Tilings and Patterns. W H Freeman. 1987. ISBN 071671193 {Most important work in this area.} |
| [gands2] | B Grünbaum and G C Shephard Interlace Patterns in Islamic and Moorish Art. Leonardo, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, pp. 331-339. 1992. Copyright controlled copy on Internet. * |
| [gink] | Károly Gink Azerbaijan, mosques, turrets, palaces. Corvina Kiadó. 1979. ISBN 963130321 {text by Ilona Turánszky} * |
| [glassner] | Andrew Glassner Andrew Glassner's Notebook: Recreational Computer Graphics. Morgan Kaufmann. 1999. ISBN 155860598 {420pp} |
| [gluck] | Heinrich Glück and Ernst Diez Die Kunst des Islam. Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag. 1925. {pp616} * |
| [golomb1] | S W Golomb Polyominoes. Revised and expanded second edition. Princeton University Press. 1994. ISBN 069102444 |
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| [gomez] | R Perez-Gomez The four regular mosaics mssing in the Alhambra. Comput. Math, Applic. Vol 14. No 2, pp133-137. 1987. * |
| [grafton] | Carol Belanger Grafton Decorative Tile Designs in full Color. Dover. 1992. {92 High quality colour plates; dated 1870-1930.} |
| [grube] | Ernst J. Grube The world of Islam. London, Hamlyn, Pressmark 21.Z.6. 1966. {176p} * |
| [guy] | Richard K Guy Unsolved Problems in Number Theory. Springer Verlag. 1994. ISBN 038794289 {pp285} |
| [hankin1] | E Hanbury Hankin The drawing of geometric patterns in Saracenic art. Calcutta : Govt. of India, Central Publication Branch. 1925. {Considers more tricky patterns in detail.} Available on Internet. * |
| [hankin2] | E Hanbury Hankin Some Difficult Saracenic Designs II. Mathematical Gazette, Vol 18, pp165-168. 1934. {Considers one pattern in detail.} Available on Internet. |
| [hattstein] | Markus Hattstein and Peter Delius Islam : art and architecture. Konemann, Cologne. 2000. ISBN 382902558 * |
| [hedgecoe] | John Hedgecoe Zillij : the art of Moroccan ceramics. Pressmark 507.F.92. 1992. ISBN 187393802 {Edited by Salma Samar Damluji} * |
| [herzfeld1] | E Herzfeld Die Ausgrabungen von Sammarra I.. Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik, Berlin. 1923. |
| [herzfeld2] | E Herzfeld Damascus: Studies in Architecture: I. Ars Islamica Vol9, pp1-53. 1942. Copyright controlled copy on Internet. * |
| [hessemer] | F M Hessemer Historic Designs and Patterns in Color. Dover. about 1840. ISBN 048626425 {This collection is unusual in giving the source for almost all the patterns.} |
| [hill] | Derek Hill Islamic architecture and its decoration, A.D. 800-1500.... Faber and Faber, Pressmark 35.C.183. 1964. ISBN 050051032 {With an introductory text by Oleg Grabar} * |
| [hill2] | Derek Hill and Lucien Golvin Islamic architecture in North Africa : a photographic survey. Faber and Faber. 1976. ISBN 057110460 {167pp} |
| [hrbas] | Hrbas, Miloš and Edgar Knobloch The art of Central Asia. London, Hamlyn. 1965. {3-27, [10] p. front., illus., 136 plates (incl. 40 col.) 28 cm.} * |
| [humbert] | Claud Humbert Islamic Ornamental Design. Faber and Faber. 1980. ISBN 057111587 {Useful, contains several tilings.} * |
| [hutt] | Antony Hutt and Leonard Harrow Iran 1. London: Scorpion Publications. 1977. ISBN 090590600 * |
| [iran] | Mahmood Maher al-Naqsh Design and execution of drawing in Iranian tilework, Islamic period. Reza Abbasi Museum. 1983. {Good collection of Iranian patterns, text in Persian} * |
| [jones] | Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament. Dover. 1856. ISBN 048625463 {Excellent book with 100 colour plates, with many containing several tiling patterns.} Fuller version available on Internet. |
| [jones2] | Owen Jones and Jules Goury Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra.... London. 1837. {2 v. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 60 cm.} * |
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| [landau] | Rom Landau and Wim Swaan Morocco: Marrakesh, Fez, Rabat. Elek Books Ltd. 1967. {London} * |
| [lee] | A. J. Lee Islamic star patterns. Muqarnas vol. 4. pp182-197 Pressmark PP.8.M. 1987. {Important paper on star patterns} Available on Internet. * |
| [lings] | Martin Lings Splendours of Qur‘an Calligraphy and Illumination. Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation. 2005. * |
| [lowry] | Glenn D Lowry Humayun's Tomb; form, function, and meaning in early Mughal architectu. Muqarnas, Vol 4. 1987. {133 - 148} Available on Internet. * |
| [makov] | E Makovicky F. Rull Perez, et al Decagonal patterns in the Islamic art.... Boletin de la Sociedad Espanola de Mineralogia. 1998. {Vol 21 pp107-127} * |
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| [martin] | George E Martin Polyominoes. The Mathematical Association of America. 1991. ISBN 088385501 |
| [meinecke] | Michael Meinecke Fayencedekorationen seldschukischer Sakralbauten in Kleinasien. Tübingen. 1976. {2 vols} * |
| [migeon] | Gaston Migeon Manuel D'Art Musulman II; Les Artes Plastiques et Industriels. Alphonse Picard et Fils. 1907. {Paris} |
| [muller] | Edith Müller Gruppentheoretische ... der Maurischen Ornamente aus der Alhambra .... Rüschlikon. 1944. {Zürich} * |
| [murphy] | J C Murphy The Arabian antiquities of Spain. V & A Pressmark GC 505.F.139. 1813. {The best publication found on the Alhambra in providing high quality patterns.} * |
| [myers] | Joseph S. Myers Tiling with Regular Star Polygons. Eureka 56 (March 2004), 20-27. 2004. Available on Internet. |
| [neal] | D S Neal Roman mosaics in Britain. Society for the Promotion of Roman studies. 1981. ISBN 090776414 {Beautiful publication.} |
| [necipoglu] | Gülru Necipoğlu The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture. The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. 1995. ISBN 089236335 {Beautiful publication.} * |
| [ogel] | Ögel Semra Anadolu Selçuklulari'nin ta¸s tezyinati. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi. 1966. {192p} |
| [orazi] | Roberto Orazi Grate lignee nell'architettura safavide. Roma : IsMEO. 1976. {pp245} * |
| [orton] | A Orton and S M Flower Analysis of an ancient tessellation. Mathematical Gazette, Vol 73, pp297-301. 1989. {Considers individual pattern} Available on Internet. |
| [otto] | Katharina Otto-Dorn Das islamische İznik. Berlin. 1941. * |
| [paccard] | Paccard, André Traditional Islamic craft in Moroccan architecture. Saint-Jorioz, France. 1980. ISBN 286486003 {2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.} * |
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| [pavon] | Basilio Pavón Maldonado El arte hispanomusulman en su decoración geométrica. Madrid : Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura. 1975. ISBN 846006881 {461p, 140 plates} * |
| [pc] | Not specific Personal Communication. Information sent to the author. 21 century . |
| [pope] | Arthur Upham Pope Persian Architecture. Thames and Hudson. 1965. {Good source book, but weak on geometric tiling patterns} * |
| [pope2] | Arthur Upham Pope A survey of Persian art from prehistoric times to the present. OUP. 1938. {In six volumes} * |
| [racinet] | Auguste Racinet Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament. Dover. 1886. ISBN 048626096 |
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| [rigby1] | John Rigby and Brian Wichmann Some patterns using specific tiles. Visual Mathematics, Vol 8, No 2.. 2006. Available on Internet. |
| [rogers] | Michael Rogers The spread of Islam. Elsevier-Phaidon. 1976. ISBN 072900016 {Oxford} * |
| [scerrato] | Umberto Scerrato Momuments of Civilization: Islam. Cassell, London. 1976. ISBN 030429695 {First published in Italy in 1972} * |
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| [stronge] | Susan Stronge Indian Architectural Designs. Harry N Abrams, Inc. 1989. ISBN 081093905 {A collection of 30 screen designs from the Victoria and Albert Museum.} |
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| [useinov] | Mikaėl Aleskerovich Useĭnov Pamiatniki azerbaǐdzhanskogo zodchestva. Pamiatniki zodchestva narodov CCPR, Moscow. 1951. {162p} * |
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| [wilson] | Eva Wilson Islamic Designs. British Museum. 1988. ISBN 071418066 {26 geometric designs with the source given in many cases.} * |
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