Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

738 works match

Cengiz Yar documents the de-mining efforts in the city of Mosul

The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City

Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

Director Jerry Rothwell on Ethiopia's very small town that's big on producing world-class runners

Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling

Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations

Parkview Square from Arab Street

The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine

Healing Scroll

Bowl Lyre

Double Diptych Icon Pendant

Healing Scroll

Book of the Gospels

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Processional Cross

Hand Cross (mäsqäl)

Pendant Icon: St. George, Virgin and Child Enthroned

Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl)

Tälsäm or yä bərana kətab (healing scroll)

Tälsäm or yä bərana kətab (healing scroll)

Yäʿğğ mäsqäl (hand cross)

Prayer book with case (mahdar)

Nose Ring

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Double-Sided Gospel Leaf

Wall painting of the Virgin and Child with donors

Processional Cross

Icon triptych of Ewosṭatewos and eight of his disciples

Processional Cross

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Rattle

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Healing Scroll

Sword (Saif) with Scabbard

Old Arab Bank building Amman

Textile Fragment

Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt

Textile Fragment

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Bowl with Arabic Proverb

Gumuri

Guenbri

Spear

Rebab

Guenbri

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Girdle Clasp

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Nay

Ring

Ring

"Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi

Sword with Scabbard

Tripod Candlestick

Fragmentary Plate with Engraved Designs

Vase with Five Discs

"Design for a Cup to Serve Wine at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Three-Footed Bowl

Jar

"Design for the Water Clock of the Peacocks", from the Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) by Badi' al-Zaman b. al Razzaz al-Jazari

"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Candlestick Base with Interlacing Dragons

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

"Figure for Use at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Goblet with Incised Designs

"Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Bottle

Textile Medallion

Flask

Roundel

Ewer

Pendant

Cup

Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription