String Art

The string or thread art crafter then attaches colored thread to a pin or nail head by wrapping it around and pulling it across to another peg on the board.

The colored yarns or threads used for string art projects must be pulled taut between the pins or nails as they are wrapped and carried to the next nail or pin. This isn't usually that difficult to do after some practice.

It sounds like aishia, TheGraham and ahain do the kind of string art that involves one piece of string and your hands -- the temporary kind, you know?

I've tried making the kinds of forms that hand string art performs with my pinned artwork, and while the "animated" ones don't work, the other ones look really pretty! "Jacob's Ladder" can be emulated in the pinned form of string art much fancier than you could make it with your hands, because I can make the rungs a rainbow of colors.

If you do only the hand form of string art or only the pinned form of string art, you should try combining the two -- this's really fun! @TheGraham - I've tried animated string art before -- pretty cool stuff.

I guess I'm a late bloomer or whatever, though, because I learned how to do string art entirely by watching videos of string artists on YouTube!


Try doing a search online for string art videos to watch how the pros do it, too -- if nothing else, you'll spend a few minutes with your jaw hanging in amazement at the kind of art some people can do with just a piece of string. And when you're done watching and want to learn to do it for yourself, the web is full of free string art instructions for anybody, from beginners to advanced people.

Unlike traditional forms that focus on how complicated the design looks, animated string art patterns tend to look simplistic: they have a frame with a shape inside, often an animal like a dog.

Cat's Cradle, if you've ever played it, is a simple kind of string art that lets two people switch a loop of string back and forth between their hands, making different patterns in the string depending on which fingers they use and which parts of the string form they pull.

It's one of those string art patterns that people aspire to master one day when they first take up string art.