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Techniques

How string art pictures are made.

This demonstration uses the free String Art Fun

Circle 1 pattern. It takes you through the picture

making process step by step.

Various board materials

can be used as a base.

We have found that

cork floor tiles are easy

to work with. These are

readily available from

carpet shops and home

improvement stores. The

usual size of these is 305

x 305 mm (12 x 12

inches). They can be cut

to the required picture

size with a craft knife and

metal straight edge or ruler. Buy your picture frame first and use the insert

from this as a template for the base size. Make a sandwich of two or three tiles

so that the base is about 12 mm (1/2 inch) thick. Double-sided self-adhesive

tape can be used to fix them together.

Cover the base board with black felt. Felt is available with a self-adhesive

backing or it can be secured with double-sided self-adhesive tape.

Alternatively the felt could be wrapped around the back of the board and

secured with staples, drawing pins or tacks.

Place the printed pattern

on the front of the base

board and secure it with

tape.

The nails are Veneer Pins

16 mm (5/8 inch) long.

These have very small

heads. Hammer in the

nails as indicated on the

pattern. Small nails are

easier to hammer if they

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9/1/2010 Techniques at String Art Fun

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are held with pointed

nose pliers. Hammer the nails in until there is about 6 mm (1/4 inch)

protruding.

All of the nails have been

hammered in. The paper

pattern can now be

removed.

We are using multi-

stranded cotton (sold in

skeins for cross stitch

work). This comes in a

wide range of bright

colours.

The instructions for circle

1 start as follows:

"2 - 46, 46 - 7, 7- 51, 51

- 12, 12 - 56.

Continue this sequence

until the section is complete using the illustration as a guide."

Start by fixing the first string to nail 2 with a knot. This can be secured with a

small drop of clear drying glue.

Take the string from nail 2 across the circle to wrap round nail 46.

From nail 46 we go across the circle to nail 7.

Then from nail 7 we go across to nail 51.

Note that each cross string has the same number of nails between the two

nails that it spans. We are moving forward by five nails with each cross string.

The stringing continues in this way using the illustration as a guide.

When the first layer is

complete knot the end

of the string to the final

nail. On this particular

layer we have worked

around the circle twice to

arrive back at the nail we

started with.



Work the second layer in

a different colour.

The number of nails

between each cross

string is different to layer

1 thus giving a different

pattern.

As in layer 1 it is

calculated to end on the

first nail of the sequence

to make it symmetrical.

This is the finished

picture with layer 3 in a

third colour.

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