Anonymous ID: bbbe31 May 21, 2025, 5:05 a.m. No.23062966   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2981

The striped style seems to be originally from Byzantine architecture, not too far after the fall of Rome. For all we know it may go back even farther, me it resembles what the pharaohs used to wear.

Pretty ancient.

 

Ablaq

 

 

Ablaq (Arabic: ; particolored; literally 'piebald'[1]) is an architectural technique involving alternating or fluctuating rows of light and dark stone.[2][3] It is an Arabic term[4] describing a technique associated with Islamic architecture in the Arab world.[5]It may have its origins in earlier Byzantine architecture in the region, where alternating layers of white stone and orange brick were used in construction.[3] The technique is used primarily for decorative effect.

The ablaq decorative technique is thought to possibly be a derivative from the ancient Byzantine Empire, whose architecture used alternate sequential runs of light colored ashlar stone and darker colored orange brick.[3] The first clearly recorded use of ablaq masonry is found in repairs to the north wall of the Great Mosque of Damascus in 1109.[3]

 

The technique may have originated in Syria, where the local stone supply may have encouraged the use of alternating courses of light and dark stone. In the southern part of Syria there is abundance of black basalt as well as white-colored limestone. The supplies of each are about equal, so it was natural that masonry techniques of balanced proportions were used.[3]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablaq