String art, pioneered in the late 1960s by the founders of Open Door Company of Los Gatos and Campbell, California, is characterized by an arrangement of colored thread strung between points to form abstract geometric patterns or representational designs such as a ship's sails, sometimes with other artist material comprising the remainder of the work. Thread, wire, or string is wound around a grid of nails hammered into a velvet covered wooden board. Though straight lines are formed by the string, the slightly different angles and metric positions at which strings intersect may give the appearance of Bézier curves (and often construct actual quadratic Bézier curves). Other forms of string art include Spirelli, which is used for cardmaking and scrapbooking, and curve stitching, in which string is stitched through holes.
External links
- string art at Math Cats
- http://www.teachersnetwork.org/dcs/math/stringart/index.html
- curve-stitch Designs
- David Chow design
- String art master works
- Agota's Stringart World with 600 patterns
- http://www.bloggen.be/strings_and_things
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