Kaberia used the KBC logo to create an art piece in honour of the World Cup.
String artist Victor Kaberia visited the KBC studios recently to discuss his art, his journey into string art and to offer a piece in honour of KBC hosting the World Cup.
String art, often referred to as pin and thread art, is characterized by an arrangement of coloured threads (mostly twine) strung between points to form geometric patterns or representational designs such as a ship’s sails, sometimes with other artist material comprising the remainder of the work.
Thread, wire, or string is wound around a grid of nails hammered into a velvet-covered wooden board. Though straight lines are formed by the string, the slightly different angles and metric positions at which strings intersect give the appearance of Bézier curves (as in the mathematical concept of the envelope of a family of straight lines). Quadratic Bézier curves are obtained from strings based on two intersecting segments. Other forms of string art include Spirelli, which is used for cardmaking and scrapbooking, and curve stitching, in which string is stitched through holes.
String art has its origins in the ‘curve stitch’ activities invented by Mary Everest Boole at the end of the 19th century to make mathematical ideas more accessible to children. It was popularised as a decorative craft in the late 1960s through kits and books.
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