Platform Tiling

Taj Mahal, Agra

The surface of the platform, below the white marble plinth which supports the building, is decorated with ornamental tiling. In the pattern used here, the repeating stars have paired arms of unequal width, the adjacent rows and columns being offset by half a unit.

Tiling is a mathematical term that means any space-filling, geometric, pattern. The material used on the platform of the Taj is cut stone, not ceramic tile.