Zakhraf Studio is an atelier in your browser for authentic Islamic geometry. Start from a documented historical panel, tune the symmetry and colour live, then take it out as a print-ready vector, a seamless repeat, or fabrication files your maker can cut from.
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Nothing here is sampled from an image. Every pattern is assembled in order, from a documented tessellation to the strapwork laid over it to the colour. Watch a single eight-fold motif come together in three moves.
The polygons-in-contact skeleton. Every vertex is an exact line intersection, not a placed point.
The straps are woven into continuous ribbon. Over and under is decided by the geometry, not by hand.
Faces are grouped by congruence and coloured by class, the way a cutter works from one template per shape.
Every session can begin from a monument that is still standing. Each panel below opens directly in the studio, already set to that construction and palette; inherit centuries of proven proportion, then evolve the pattern from there. Adapted panels are labelled as adapted, never passed off as the original.
Cut-tile mosaic assembled from templates, coloured by congruence class.
Open this panel in the studio →Mature Marinid strapwork in the Fès tetrachord: cobalt, plaster, saffron, copper-green.
Open this panel in the studio →Among the earliest surviving geometric screens; each grille a different star lattice.
Open this panel in the studio →Haft-rangi, the Safavid seven-colour tilework, colour fired into the tile itself.
Open this panel in the studio →Carved sandstone screens filtering light through the hexagram, the Seal of Solomon.
Open this panel in the studio →Recolour a single face by hand with the zellige picker, or pull the whole palette toward a target across the surface. Everything carries through to every export, so the sample you show a client is the file the maker receives.
Judge a pattern at full size, in the room, before anything is cut. The preview composites your current pattern and palette into a set of authored room scenes, perspective-correct, with the room's own light recovered over the tiles. The scenes are a curated set: a corner room, a full dado wall, a stair wall. Every one shows your pattern, never a stock image.
This is where the exact geometry earns its keep. Before a single file leaves the studio, Zakhraf measures the pattern in millimetres against your tool and counts every piece. Two downstream paths ship from the same click: line-work for a CAD shop, and a dimensioned template sheet for a workshop that cuts by hand. The screen and the cut file share one geometry, so what you see is what ships.
Every export is measured against your machine before it saves.
A maalem does not need a CAD seat. The cut schedule counts every piece by template class, and the tile module prints at true size in millimetres, the sheet a hand-cutter works from. The concept sheet carries palette and provenance to the client.
Zakhraf runs free forever for exploration and personal use. Creator unlocks the exports and fabrication documents needed to put a pattern onto a product, under a commercial licence.
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A documented wall, cut by hand from single templates.
The same construction, derived analytically and tuned live.
Fabrication files a maker reads without redrawing.