String Art

String art, or pin and thread art, is characterized by an arrangement of colored thread strung between points to form 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 gives the appearance of Bézier curves (as in the mathematical concept of envelope of a family of straight lines). Quadratic Bézier curve are obtained from strings based on two intersecting segments. Other forms of string art include Spirelli, which is used for cardmaking and scrapbooking, and curve stitching, in which string is stitched through holes.

The thread is a technique that is characterized by the use of colored wires, strings or tensioned wires that are wrapped around a set of nails to form geometric figures, abstract or other types of representations. This procedure is usually carried out on a painted or upholstered wooden base, and with it any idea can be reproduced. Generally, although the figures are formed by straight lines, the different angles and positions in which the threads cross can give the appearance of the Bezier Curves. Other forms of this string art include the Spirelli style, commonly used for making cards and scrapbooks, among other things.

Thread graphics graphics technology, image acquisition threads on cardboard or other solid base. Thread drawing is also sometimes called isografica or embroidery on cardboard. Sometimes velvet (velvet paper) or thick paper is sometimes used as a base. Threads can be ordinary sewing, woolen others. You can also use colored silk threads.

In view of the fact that this technique and the kind of creativity have a pedagogical effect and is relatively low-cost, student associations (circles, workshops, clubs) “Izonit” have become widespread in institutions of additional education for children, as well as in schools. There are known temporary associations (circles) for teaching thread design even in health camps.

This technique allows you to accustom your child to assiduity, painstaking manual labor and actively develop motor skills. The purposes of employment нитяной by drawing younger schoolboys at lessons of technology:
1. Gives the concept of different angles: the size, the length of the sides, the circumference, the chord of different lengths; exercise in the quantitative and ordinal account; fix the knowledge of directions: above, below, left, right; gives the concept of the middle, center, top, edge
2. Develops color perception: concepts of cold and warm colors, will teach you how to choose the color for the background, teach you to distinguish the thickness of the thread, the back and the front side of the product
3. Develops abstract thinking
4. Teach children to own a needle, an awl, a thread, teach them how to work with a stencil
5. Develops the muscles of the hand, eye, eye acuity, coordination of the movements of the hands under the control of the eyes
6. Raises assiduity, patience, attentiveness, diligence
7. Introduces a new kind of artistic activity, inculcates the ability to use the acquired knowledge in other types of visual and labor activity
8. Develops the active and passive vocabulary of children; develops explanatory and demonstrative speech

String art has its origins in the ‘curve stitch’ activities invented by Mary Everest Boole at the end of the 19th century to make mathematical ideas more accessible to children. It was popularised as a decorative craft in the late 1960s through kits and books.

The term “string style” was coined in the early 1990s by the Swiss textile artist Ursula Stirnimann.

The URDIRAÑA, word recreated by the Rioja poet Maria Arguello, linking the concepts of the warp (of the loom and the fabric that the spider makes). The technique was born, when back in the years 1968-1969, on one side of a cardboard box: pins, zigzag thread and forming a figure to then place a pin next to each other, and in this way, start to cross the thread to achieve crosses and, where the chosen figure is given body. This is one of the ways in which we highlight the artistic impulse which is inherent to the human condition; that from the dawn of humanity men were leaving the imprint of this way of being all the utensils and objects that they use in their daily life. In such a way, the desire to beautify all things leads us to realize our little world. In which art is an encoding of certain languages with a purpose of beauty. The thread is an unusual subject to get a visual object; of deep and powerful beauty, its management within parameters totally involving the plastic. This is an open, universal and Latin American creation.

Geographically, string art images are basically to be distinguished between the Far East (China), the American continent and Europe. While in China mainly silk threads are processed into miniatures, for example, the Huichol Indians in Mexico rely on relatively coarse and strong cotton threads. In Europe, on the other hand, synthetic, silk and mercerized cotton yarns are used. String art images often look very colorful and expressive.

Nityanaya graphics, as a kind of decorative and applied art, first appeared in England in the XVII century. English weavers came up with a special way to weave threads. They hammered nails into the planks and, in a certain sequence, pulled the threads on them. As a result, laced lace products were produced, which were used to decorate the home. (There was a version that these works were some kind of sketches for patterns on fabrics). Now this art is very famous, it is used in many countries to decorate the house and life.

Technique: Artificial, silk or cotton yarns are glued to a substrate, usually a wooden panel. While the Huichol Indians use specially prepared tree resins, modern industrial adhesives are used in Europe as a bonding agent. On the correspondingly prepared wood panels, the yarn threads are laid and fixed individually by hand.

The origin of the yarn images is not known exactly. On the one hand, it is claimed that China is the starting point, on the other hand it is assumed that missionaries once introduced this technique in Mexico.