This delightful and rewarding diy activity combines the art of string art with the symbolism of a heart, making it a perfect ...

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. String art is – as the name suggests – art that’s created primarily out of string. Often known as pin and thread ...

In the 1970's, when I was a Campfire Girl, I spent a good deal of time trying to sell Campfire Candy. I never did master it. (Maybe, that's why I was so impressed years later to find out my good ...

String art is one of those deceptively simple things: Crisscross string back and forth between tiny nails hammered into a board until they form a recognizable image. At the simplest levels, it’s ...

One of my favorite crafts when I was a little kid was string art. I remember my fourth-grade teacher helping me pound nails into a piece of wood in a circular pattern, and then I would go from nail to ...

Creating recognizable portraits of people with one continuous piece of black cotton thread 12 football fields long is “intense,” Kim Denne says. Running that piece of thread back and forth between 240 ...

In 1979, the artist James Inoli Murphy tried out the idea of using string figures—those cat’s-cradle games of loops and knots—to teach math to recalcitrant students. “It is a pleasure, it is an active ...