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Picture Designs

Strong pictorial elements may be noted in several categories of design illustrated in the preceding pages, from willow trees and nightingales to vases and mosques.  But although the borderline between a real picture and one which simple contains representational elements is ill-defined, very few of them, such as this one
could be called fully fledged pictures.  The Chinese pile rug in "tapestry" style shown here does look like it could be a photograph,

Of course, the finer the weaver the easier it is to produce pictorial effect.  In fact, however, picture rugs tend to be dependent on fineness of stitch but more on local tradition.  The representation of human or other figures in art is forbidden to Muslims - not in the Koran, as sometimes asserted, but in the hadith, the sayings attributed to the Prophet.

In this piece, Majnn throws himself on Layla's tomb, Indian miniature paining illustrating a mid-fifteenth-century romance; this is a typical example
of the secular representational art that flourished at the court of the Sunni Mogul emperors.

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