Dec 1, 2020
Portrait of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington Made Entirely Out of Thread and Nails
Check out this incredible artwork by Konstantin Hlanta
Tag: thread
Aug 27, 2019
Stunning Animals Embroidered by Hand Using Colored and Metallic Thread
Laura Baverstock is a specialist hand embroiderer, textile artist, and illustrator who mixes traditional stitching techniques with her contemporary design practice
Mar 21, 2018
Artist Mixes Embroidery with Watercolor on Fabric
Dutch artist Floor Giebels combines embroidery with watercolor on fabric
Nov 27, 2017
Renaissance Portraits Made From Single Thread on Circular Loom
Petro Vrellis wraps a single, 1-2 km long thread, 3000-4000 times across a 200-peg loom
Nov 8, 2017
Unravelling Ropes Into Fractal-Like Patterns (10 Photos)
Janaina Mello Landini unravels ropes into patterns that evoke tree roots, river basins and lightning strikes
Dec 1, 2016
Gabriel Dawe’s Threaded Rainbows are Beautiful
“Plexus no. 35” is on display at the Toledo Museum of Art until January 22, 2017
May 14, 2015
This Artist Wrapped 24 km of Thread Around 13,000 Nails to Create This
Ukrainian artist Zenyk Palagniuk wrapped 24 km (15 mi) of thread around 13,000 nails to create an amazingly realistic portrait of Justin Timberlake. It took the artist over 200 hours to complete. Palagniuk began by sketching the portrait on a large piece of plywood. He then hammered in all of the nails and wrapped…
Mar 5, 2014
Kumi Yamashita Unveils Latest Artwork Made from a Single, Unbroken Thread
Artwork by KUMI YAMASHITA Kumi Yamashita, whose mind-blowing artwork has been featured previously (here and here), just unveiled her latest artwork in her ongoing Constellation series. Posted earlier this afternoon to her official Facebook page, the new piece was privately commissioned. The Constellation body of work consists of three simple materials that,…
Dec 22, 2013
92-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls
A stunning gallery of embroidered temari balls by a 92-year-old grandmother who has been practicing the craft for over thirty years.
Nov 19, 2013
A Single Thread Wrapped Around Thousands of Nails
Kumi Yamashita, whose mind-blowing shadow artworks have been featured before, uses a single, unbroken thread wrapped around thousands of nails to create stunning portraits of women and men. In the ongoing series entitled Constellation (a nod to the Greek tradition of tracing mythical figures in the sky), the Japanese artist (living and working in…
