In ordinary plastic rulers, the side wears out very easily. The best one, in my opinion, is made of transparent plastic with a metal edge.
Please don’t use rulers that can be folded, twisted or anything… just a long solid ruler. This one is not that hard to find nor even expensive. Staedtler and Ecobra still make good quality compasses but search for the ones with no plastic parts, as they wear out quickly. Search for the following manufacturers: Haff, Dietzgen, Kern, Ecobra, Riefler and Keuffel & Esser. The companies that are still working manufacture mid-low quality tools which are not always the best solution.īut thank God eBay exists and so do vintage stuff. Digital drawing has replaced hand drawing, and architects are not using compasses anymore. You can read more about the different types of compass here, but just so you know a high-quality compass makes a whole difference.įact is that many of the professional-quality compass manufacturers don’t produce compasses anymore or they don’t exist anymore. The very first tool you should buy is a GOOD compass. But you can’t draw Islamic geometry without these things for sure. I’m not saying that you don’t need anything else besides these.
If you are just starting out and you wonder what the three essential tools you should buy to start practising Islamic geometry are, then this blog post is for you.
In any case, I do my research before buying something: forums, reviews, quality-price rate, and so on.ĭuring all these years I’ve learnt the hard way that it’s better to spend more money on a few high-quality tools instead of spending small amounts of money into an infinite number of low-quality stuff. Ok, maybe I do have a lot of stuff but they are less than the make up a make-up artist owns so in my head that means I’m not wasting my money HA! If you come to my studio you will find out that I don’t own that many geometry tools.
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