--- title: Two Rosco Gobos Inspire A Bespoke Mosque Window Gobo Design description: "Lighting Designer Sara Burns used two standard Rosco gobo designs as inspiration for a custom mosque window gobo needed for the play \"10 Nights\" in London." image: https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20new%20size%20feature%20OG%20copy%202.jpg --- ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Rosco/Images/page-top-bg.jpeg) [![NewSpectrumlogo](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/NewSpectrumlogo.png?width=320&height=150&name=NewSpectrumlogo.png)](https://spectrum.rosco.com) - [Home](https://spectrum.rosco.com/) - [About Spectrum](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products-3?hsLang=en) - [Featured Products](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products?hsLang=en) - [Rosco.com](https://us.rosco.com/en) Home About Spectrum Featured Products Rosco.com ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20new%20size%20feature%20OG%20copy%202.jpg) # Two Rosco Gobos Inspire A Bespoke Mosque Window Gobo Design [Lighting Designer Sara Burns](https://www.saraburnslightingdesign.co.uk/) created the lighting for [10 *Nights*](https://youtu.be/86SFVBvMTro), a play that was produced by [Graeae](https://graeae.org/) and performed at [The Bush Theatre](https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/) in London. The script focuses on a young Muslim man doing Itikaf for the first time. This Islamic practice involves spending the last ten nights of Ramadan in isolation inside a mosque. To create this environment, Sara wanted to incorporate a mosque window gobo into her lighting design as a way to support the spiritual journey of the main character. “My research for the play's aesthetic and palette kept bringing me towards the beauty of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul and the shape of the arches and towers,” Sara noted. “For a play mostly set at nighttime inside a UK mosque, I was adamant that I needed a gorgeous moonlit window!” ![Inspirational images Sara Burns used to create her Mosque Window custom gobo](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20inspo%20images.jpg?width=1200&height=600&name=10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20inspo%20images.jpg)*Examples of the effect Sara envisioned (left) and her inspiring selection of Rosco standard gobo images (right).* Sara began hunting for a specific gobo design for this project. “I very much knew what I wanted, but it just didn't exist,” she recalled. Sara ended up finding inspiration inside [Rosco’s Gobo Catalog](https://www.rosco.com/products/family/gobos). Two standard steel gobo patterns – #R77740 Chinese Screen and #R77337 Eastern – had elements that she desired for her mosque window gobo design, she just needed to combine those elements together. ![The two standard gobos that inspired Sara Burns' Mosque Window custom gobo.](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Rev%2010%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%203%20gobos%20copy.jpg?width=662&height=265&name=Rev%2010%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%203%20gobos%20copy.jpg) Sara merged the patterns of the two gobos together and then modified the design into her own custom mosque window gobo. She adapted the scale of the #R77740 gobo to achieve the geometric repeating pattern found in Islamic art and architecture. Then she modified the window shape of #R77337 to accentuate the upper “dome” of the design. “The final shape needed to be PERFECT,” she recalled, “because I knew the pattern was going to be in super sharp focus.” ![Sara Burns' Mosque Window custom gobos projected on stage for the play 10 Nights.](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20stage%20projections.jpg?width=1200&height=532&name=10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20stage%20projections.jpg) *Sara’s custom mosque window gobo image projected on the stage.* Sara ended up having her design made into two [Custom Steel Gobos](https://www.rosco.com/products/family/gobos#Type) – one projected from the side to hit the gauze that was hung as a divider on stage, and another projected from above onto the ground. “I just love a gobo,” Sara noted, reflecting on the role gobos play in her work. “Textures are such an important element in my design projects. Used subtly, for me, they are an integral part of illumination.” To learn more about Sara Burns’ enchanting lighting designs, visit her website: [www.saraburnslightingdesign.co.uk](http://www.saraburnslightingdesign.co.uk). Need a gobo for your next project? [Explore our Gobo Catalog](https://www.rosco.com/products/family/gobos) to find the pattern you’re looking for or for the inspiration you need to [create the perfect Custom Gobo](https://us.rosco.com/en/products/family/gobos#Type). Tatiana Massano January 17, 2023 [Questions?](mailto:spectrum@rosco.com) [Entertainment Lighting](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/entertainment-lighting) ![](https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/Tatiana-Massano2-160x160.jpg) ## About Tatiana Massano Content Marketing Specialist: Based in the Madrid office, Tatiana is ideally positioned to share inspiring stories of how customers use Rosco products to accomplish their ideas in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ### Related post [The Rosco Gobo Design Contest](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2018/07/the-rosco-gobo-design-contest?hsLang=en) [The Origin Story Of Rosco’s New African Mud Cloth Breakup Gobo Designs](https://spectrum.rosco.com/the-origin-story-of-roscos-new-african-mud-cloth-breakup-gobo-designs?hsLang=en) [The Birth Of A Gobo: How Tony Tucci’s Hand-Cut Patterns Made It Into Rosco’s Gobo Library](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2018/03/tony-tuccis-patterns-in-roscos-gobo-library?hsLang=en) [The Birth Of A Gobo: Crawford Leaf – From Tabletop To Projected Pattern](https://spectrum.rosco.com/index.php/2018/03/crawford-leaf-from-tabletop-to-gobo?hsLang=en) ### Receive Email Alerts About New Spectrum Blog Posts! ### Categories [Architecture](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/architecture) [Dance](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/dance) [Entertainment Lighting](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/entertainment-lighting) [Film, Television and Broadcast](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/film-television-and-broadcast) [Photography](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/photography) [Rosco - The Company](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/rosco-the-company) [Scenic and Staging](https://spectrum.rosco.com/tag/scenic-and-staging) © 2022 Rosco Spectrum - [Home](https://spectrum.rosco.com/) - [About Spectrum](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products-3?hsLang=en) - [Featured Products](https://spectrum.rosco.com/rosco-spectrum-featured-products?hsLang=en) - [Rosco.com](https://us.rosco.com/en) - ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Tatiana Massano", "url" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/author/tmassano" }, "dateModified" : "2023-01-18T15:51:57.077Z", "datePublished" : "2023-01-17T23:48:32.000Z", "headline" : "Two Rosco Gobos Inspire A Bespoke Mosque Window Gobo Design", "image" : [ "https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/10%20Nights%20Gobo%20blog%20new%20size%20feature%20OG%20copy%202.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/two-rosco-gobos-inspire-a-bespoke-mosque-window-gobo-design", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://spectrum.rosco.com/hubfs/ROSCO_WAL_H_RGB.png" }, "name" : "Rosco Laboratories" } } ```