Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/28/thrift-score-vintage-string-a.html
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What a great find! It is meditative to look at, just imagine how meditative it was to make it!
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I can’t imagine doing it without a constant stream of profanity…
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Haha, so maybe not so meditative for you. I think it would end up putting me into a kind of trance, after all the nails were in place. Slowly running the threads, watching the picture emerge…
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As a child of the 1970s who actually had one or two of these kits, I’d say it was somewhat more meditative, and less expletive-inducing than, say, a snap-tite model car kit, but not a lot.
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That mandala is completely mesmerizing. The colorplay is amazing.
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Back in the seventies, we kids would make wire string art similar to this one at Etsy.
Thanks for the memory, and great find, Rusty!
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wow great score!
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Yes! Or Spirograph.
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I had one of those kits…the one of the male lion’s head.
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I first learned about these in a mathematics summer day camp way back in elementary school – though we did them with pencil and paper. Never did get around to trying to make a proper one.
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Nice find, Rusty! Seems like this piece found you
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Some very clever engineer built his own CNC machine to not only wind string art, but to digitize pictures with it: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/23/polar-platform-spins-out-intricate-string-art-portraits/
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I had the sailboat kit in the late 70’s/early 80’s. I was so proud of that thing at the time.
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@Rusty_Blazenhoff what is the material of the background? red velvet?
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No, it’s a thick dark brown felt stretched over a heavy board
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Wow! some folks have really upped the game.
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What a great find – that beautiful personal note makes this even more of a treasure. Antiques Roadshow fantasy fodder!
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