Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Week One of Hand Sewing (Grades 3-8): String Art

In week one we worked on the basic skills of threading a needle and getting down the sewing motion. When you sew a basic running stitch, you always poke up from the bottom, and dive back down through the surface, like a dolphin swimming in the water. We then used yarn to create our own string art. These students made some really cool radiating and repeating designs, check them out!

 










We then looked at how artists use string to create art examining the colorful and awe-inspiring work of artist Nike Savvas:



And Artist Gabriel Dawe, and their incredible rainbow thread installation: 











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