Substrate

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

1,022 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Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

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

Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe

Riga 1950 25kop USSR

Parkview Square from Arab Street

USSR 1449-1454

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

Celebrating the daring designs of Soviet avant-garde film posters with collector Susan Pack

Sword (Saif) with Scabbard

Old Arab Bank building Amman

Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

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

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

Bowl with Arabic Proverb

Guenbri

Gumuri

Rebab

Guenbri

Spear

Girdle Clasp

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Pendant

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Ring

Ring

Nay

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

Sword with Scabbard

Tripod Candlestick

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

Vase with Five Discs

Fragmentary Plate with Engraved Designs

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

"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

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

Jar

Goblet with Incised Designs

Three-Footed Bowl

Candlestick Base with Interlacing Dragons

Bottle

Textile Medallion

Ewer

Ewer

Flask

Roundel

Ewer

Cup

Cylinder seal with chariot hunting scene and Old South Arabian inscription

Jar

Ewer

Qur'an Manuscript

Ewer

Pendant

Jar with Carved Benedictory Arabic Inscription in Thuluth Script

Bottle with Molded Designs of Animals

Textile Fragment

Fragmentary Cup with Molded Designs in the Beveled Style

Spheroconical Vessel

Spheroconical Vessel

Textile Fragment

Candlestick Base

Bowl

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Ceramic Fragment

Fragment of a Bowl with White Glaze

Fragment of a Bowl

Ceramic Fragment

Ceramic Fragment