String Art Wall Piece

by alan0001 in Craft > Art

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String Art Wall Piece

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After buying Yarn balls, i have a question “ what i make with this yarn ball?”

Answer is String Art on board.

With yarn i want to make something complex and with more colors.

I have 7 different colors for my string wall art piece.


Lets start make string art.

Collect all supplies for make this art piece.


Supplies

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1> MDF Board 4mm thickness 1.5’ x 2’ feet

2> 7 different color yarn

3> ½” length Nail 500 piece (Approx)

Draw Lines for Nail

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First take a board in size of 2x1.5 feet .

Draw outlines.

Draw random lines inside to make a outlines region for strings.



Make a Dots for Nail.

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After drawing lines i make a dots for positioning nail on drawing lines.

Distance between 2 dots is approx. 12 to 15 mm.

Attach Nail.

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Attach nail on border of drawing.

Distance between 2 nail is approx 12 to  15 mm for dense string art.

It takes approx 500 nails to fill all randomly drawn borders.



Attach Strings.

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  • Start attach string.
  • First select any color and any place on board to start.
  • Make a knot on starting point and check it twice.
  • Now yo select region and tie strings around nails and make web of string from selected region.
  • Repeat this with different color of yarn for different region.
  • At ending of region tight a knot to complete the end.
  • I make 36 different color region as below. All are selected randomly.


  1. Yellow region = 5 
  2. Red region = 5
  3. Orange = 5
  4. Sky blue = 5
  5. Dark blue = 6
  6. Green = 5
  7. Violet = 5


  • Making this string art takes 5 hrs to complete.
  • After completion we have board with string art.

Hang on Wall

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Use screw to hand this string art piece on wall.

Enjoy making.