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

3.  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.

4. It’s very easy to design mosaics with regular poligons. For example:  Squares  Equilateral triangules  Hexagons

5.  The arabs became the best al creating unique figures.  These are the three most common and easy to design figures: - The bone - The plane - The crane

6. The basic shape:

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

8. Detail

9. The basic shape

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

12. The basic shape:

13. The shape starts as a equilateral triangule. And the final result is a shape with the same area but shaped like a crane.

19. 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