Showing posts with label Sewing Thread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sewing Thread. Show all posts

10 January 2014

Artist Sews Portraits into His Hands

David Catá feels the strong influence of some individuals in his life, close friends and family members. As a way to share this and makes them aware just how much they've meant to him, he sews portraits of them directly into his palms.
Check out the video down below to see him working, stitching his palm with the image of his loved ones.










12 June 2012

Outstanding Sewing Thread Portraits

What you will discover down the page are series of portraits by artist Kumi Yamashita. Each and every portrait is actually created from just one unbroken dark-colored thread twisted through a dense array of galvanized nails installed on a white colored panel, and therefore the darker spots within the portrait are actually created from the density of the string.