Star Lattice
A dense lattice of interlocking stars - the star-and-polygon geometry that runs through Islamic latticework and Renaissance pavement design.
- Islamic
- Celestial
A field of multi-pointed stars, each one sharing its outer edges with the stars around it, so the negative space between them takes on its own coherent geometry. The figure-ground inversion is part of the appeal - stare at one piece, then the other, and the pattern reorganizes itself.
Star lattices like this run through Islamic architectural decoration from Andalusia to Central Asia, through Renaissance pavement design, and through modern computer-generated tessellation work. Different traditions, same drawing.
At jewelry scale one cluster of stars becomes a pendant. At architectural scale the same lattice carries a screen, a tile floor, or a pierced metal panel.
The same patience that fills a pendant fills a panel.