islam prohibited drawing natural figures, therefore they drew geometric designs
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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 al creating unique figures.
These are the three most common and easy to design figures:
- The bone- The plane- The crane
The shape starts as a square. And the final result is a shape with the same area but
shaped like a bone.
The shape starts as a square. And the final result is a shape with the same area but
shaped like a plane.
The shape starts as a equilateral triangule. And the final result is a shape with the
same area but shaped like a crane.
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