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Azerbaijani painter writes Quran on transparent silk pages

Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silk pages. Memmedzade, a 33-year-old artist, used 50 meters of transparent black silk, and 1,500 milliliters of gold and silver inks in the project, which has taken three years to complete. (read more) 

Mashallah, how incredibly beautiful. 

50 meters of transparent black silk…

… If that doesn’t impress you consider this: To get the pages to look like this, they almost certainly had to weave them from a single thread of silk. That is, a single thread, not multiple threads plied like string or yarn. One. Strand.

I dye silk roving. My wife spins the stuff. Silk is strong, don’t get me wrong, but in its own way it is delicate, too. It clings to everything for starters. It has has to be impossibly hard to make those pages… and yet…

I just can’t impress enough how amazing this is, the sheer patience it had to take, and the phenomenal skill required to work the material in that manner. I think this must be one of the most beautiful acts of worship as art that I have ever seen.

I think this must be one of the most beautiful acts of worship as art that I have ever seen.

I absolutely agree with this comment.