Girih

Okay, so imagine you want to decorate your room and you want to use a pattern that looks really cool and different. Now imagine you don't want to just use any old pattern, you want to use a special pattern that was used a long, long time ago in places like Iran and other parts of the world. This special pattern is called girih.

Girih patterns are made up of lots of little shapes like stars, squares, and hexagons that are connected together in a really cool way. The girih patterns were used a long time ago to decorate buildings and mosques (that's a special place where people go to pray). But the thing is, when people made these girih patterns a long time ago, they didn't have computers or fancy machines like we do today. Instead, they had to use their hands to cut out all the shapes and put them together like a puzzle.

So you might be wondering, why is girih special? Well, girih uses a special method called "hatching" to make the patterns really cool. When you "hatch" something, it means you cross lines over each other in a special way. So when you look at girih patterns really closely, you'll see that they have lots of lines that cross over each other in different ways to make the pattern look really amazing.

In the end, girih is just a special pattern that people used a long time ago to decorate buildings and mosques. But what makes girih really special is that people had to use their hands to make it, and they used a special method called "hatching" to make the pattern look really cool.