Islam prohibited drawing natural figures, therefore they drew geometric designs.

If you want to make a mosaic you have to fill the wall with a repetition or figures.

You can find the best mosaics at The Alhambra in Granada.

It’s very easy to design mosaics with regular poligons. For example:

Squares

Equilateral triangules

Hexagons

The arabs became the best at creating unique figures.

These are the three most common and easy to design figures:

- The bone- The plane- The crane

The basic shape:

The shape starts as a square. And the final result is a shape with the same area but

shaped like a bone.

Detail

The basic shape

The shape starts as a square. And the final result is a shape with the same area but

shaped like a plane.

The basic shape:

The shape starts as a equilateral triangule. And the final result is a shape with the

same area but shaped like a crane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc56fRtrKU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xycj8sPG9tI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212XC1zfxXY&feature=related

M.C.Escher:

How to make a Escher Tessellation:

Necessary materials

A T-shirt. Adhesive elbow pads in different colors Exacto-knife or scissors A pencil, a ruler, an eraser,… A model of the mosaic that you are going

to construct An iron to attach the elbow pads on the t-

shirt