This is step-by-step, detailed tutorial about the traditional Persian Islamic illumination painting with pictures. | هذا درس مفصل بالصور عن طريقة التذهيب الإسلامي على الطريقة الإيرانية/الفارسية

How to paint a Persian Islamic illumination?

• Prepare your paper with tea and burnishing.

• Make your colours from natural pigments and gum arabic.

• Make your shell gold by hand.

• Choose a design, transfer it then ink it with walnut ink

• Paint it with gold first then burnish it

• Outline everything with the black ink

• Add the rest of the colours in the background.