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Tutorial: String art painting

September 21, 2011 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

Another craft, popular in the 1970s, that is having a revivial is string art–winding fiber around a jig of nails or pins to create an image. Blair of wisecraft has come up with a completely brilliant application of this craft, using it to suggest an iconic painting (Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring) directly on her wall! She explains how to do it and says the whole process took only two hours. Go to her blog post for the details.

Many thanks to Scarlett, CraftGossip’s quilting editor, for discovering this find and sharing it with me.

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