Baua Devi has been practicing the Mithila art form for almost 60 years. She got married at the age of 12, and was encouraged ...

On a recent trip to London, I spent a morning wandering the antiquity galleries of the British Museum and was reminded — as I always am — that so many patterns and designs we use today are actually as ...

French architect India Mahdavi has used different shades of quartz to create bold, geometric floor patterns in the womenswear section of historic Berlin department store KaDeWe. Mahdavi wanted to ...

Use of motif in homes strikes the right balance between decorative and simple, ancient and modern, masculine and feminine all at same time This article was originally written by Elizabeth Mayhew for ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...