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Tag Archives: ancient

2017-12-28

ancient, square kufic, sweden.

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Some archeologists now suggest that the vikings were heavily inspired by islam and made their own Arabic square kufic script. Read more here.

2017-03-09

ancient, peru, weaving.

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Double bird from Peru, ca 1600 BC. From On Weaving by Anni Albers, 1965 (pdf).

2016-12-28

ancient, mexico.

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Various indigenous Mexican works, photographed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

2016-02-18

1920s, ancient, ecuador, patterns, textile.

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Cloth Designs. Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

By the Cayapa Indians of Ecuador, from a book published in 1925.

2015-07-19

ancient, mosaic.

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Cone mosaic in Uruk, Mesopotamia, 3000 BC.

2014-11-20

800s, ancient.

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The South Asian copper plates of Kollam, from year 849. More info.

Image from here, via iLKke.

2014-08-31

0000s, 79, ancient, italy, mosaic, tessellation.

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tessellationappreciation:

So exciting – standing on #mosaic #tiles circa AD79 at #Pompeii – #tessellation #fromwhereistand #history #feet #toes #italia (at Pompeii, Italia)

2014-02-14

1500s, 1503, 800s, ancient, germany, poetry.

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By Hrabanus Maurus in the 800s, printed in 1503.

2013-12-31

ancient, textile, weaving.

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Peruvian weaving, Paracus ca 1400-400 BC. via

2013-12-26

-4000s, ancient, iraq, pottery.

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Text-modey design from Iraq, 6000 years ago. From When Writing Met Art (p.17).