black with a mount · Fez · Manner of the sixteenth century
The Pattern Room
Fassi atelier · Manner of the sixteenth century · Fez
- Giclée on 200gsm archival matte, pigment inks
- Printed to order in Europe and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
About this piece
Eight-point stars, and then the shapes that fall out between them: the almond, the cross, the little bone-shaped saf. Moroccan geometry is built outward from a rosette rather than laid onto a grid, which is why the panels feel grown rather than drawn, and why no two walls in the medina are quite the same.
Green, white, a single lapis
A living tradition
This comes from a craft people still practise. It is nobody's private property and it is not nobody's work either: it was made, over centuries, mostly by women whose names were never written down. We say so rather than call it anonymous.
