Timurid carpet pattern painting: Sketches with color

Painting on photographic paper with red and yellow gouach; 20cm x 26cm, depicts a reconstruction of a 13th century carpet. Two illuminated negatives of the painting were exhibited in the De Young Memorial Museum "Ancient Color and Geometry: Very early ...

13th to 16th century, reconstructed rug fragment, 114cm x 195cm, Istanbul; bought in 1983 and sold on 2018, at Sotheby’s auction.

Design inspired by old Turkish carpet; intended for the production of tiles for a fireplace.

Two photographs of the geometric pattern of a tile, made out of four tiles, inspired by the Seljuk carpet geometry, but with different colors; variations of red, green and yellow are tested in each formation, in search of the most ...

Images of three tile mock-ups of a single tile, for testing different color combinations, before proceeding to the next step of fine tuning colors.

Three photographs, one color photo of the whole carpet, and one in black and white of a carpet detail with a duplicate of inverted contrast.