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Any art teachers/students out there help needed pl

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Unknown

Unknown Report 13 Apr 2005 20:26

Back in the 70s pictures were made out of board with nails pinned in with string or similar wound round to form shapes etc. Does anyone know what this art form was called please.

Unknown

Unknown Report 13 Apr 2005 20:27

my mum bought a kit - of St Pauls Cathederal - back background gold thread - I am sure it was called Thread and Nail Art.

PennyDainty

PennyDainty Report 13 Apr 2005 20:29

Don't know the official name but we called it string art at school. Christine

Unknown

Unknown Report 13 Apr 2005 20:32

Great thanks so much found it under string art daughter wishes to use the technique as part of her A levels and needed to do research many many thanks. xx

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 Apr 2005 20:36

I just Googled.... Nail and Thread Pictures... and there is mention of a Woman's Weekly book about this artform. I remember someone in our family making one of an old fashioned oil lamp using gold and silver thread.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 Apr 2005 20:50

Have sent you a message, Lindy.

JackyJ1593

JackyJ1593 Report 13 Apr 2005 22:22

I always knew it as Pin Art. Jacky :-)

Researching:
Keady, Kilkenny, New Ross, Fulham, Battersea, Clapham, Swaffham, Upton Upon Severn, St. Mary Cray

Poolie Girl

Poolie Girl Report 13 Apr 2005 22:29

filography rings a bell with me Beth :)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 13 Apr 2005 22:44

Strangely enough, this will become a dying 'art'. Last year I worked in a Maths centre - supplying maths resources to schools. I notice a pile of 'pin boards' in the corner (used for making mathematical shapes from string), and asked why they were there. 'We have to throw them out, the Council have deemed them too dangerous for children to use now'!!!! After over a 100 years of use - they (along with the old French knitting 'dollys') are out!! I wonder how may children, in all the time they were used, have been seriously injured by French knitting dolls or pin boards lol maggie

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 13 Apr 2005 23:46

Carol, I used the cotton reel and wool for French Knitting when I was a girl - but wooden cotton reels are no more. You used to be able to buy wooden 'dolls' for French Knitting though - a shaped piece of wood with a hole in the centre and small nails at the top, with painted eyes and mouth - hence the term 'doll'. maggie

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Denise

Denise Report 14 Apr 2005 00:38

Don't seem to see thread art anymore I used to do it when I was a kid and recently looked in art shops can't seem to find it. Does anyone know if you can still purchase it,it used to come in kits. Denise.

Unknown

Unknown Report 14 Apr 2005 00:46

PARABOLAS!!! Thats what the design was called!!! I used to do them with pen and ruler!! wasnt lucky enough to get the real thing tho!! Karen You will find them on google!! in parabola designs