From Prep to Hanging

Garen Lott from SouthPointe Christian Church Warwick, RI shares about his pegboards and yard designs. From Garen:

After seeing a string art design on this site I decided to make one for my church.

The design is composed of 8 sections. Each section is made of about 48 evenly spaced yarn strings, and the yarn is a simple common white yarn bought on Amazon.

The process was simple but tedious. I had 2 sheets of 4’x4′ 1″ pegboard that was not being used. I cut them into strips about 2 1/2″ wide so I had several 4′ boards (24) each having at least 2 rows of evenly spaced holes. After I measured the approximate length of each section accounting for whatever curve or path you want the yarn to take. Then I cut about 48 strings of the same length plus ~4′ extra for each of the sections. in my case it was 3 sets of 20′ , 2 sets of 25′, 2 sets of 30′, and one 15′ section. I managed this by setting up chairs in my empty worship center at these distances and walking around them way too many times holding the yarn bundles. Then I cut at either end a pile of evenly cut yarn.

The tedious part came in when each string was threaded through two pieces of pegboard and tied to a hole on a third board all in the same position. Then after the third board’s holes are filled, the yarn was straightened and all of the untied ends of the strings were tied to the first board. this will leave you with one 4′ section of 48 equal-length strings spaced 1″ apart with a third board in the middle to use to comb out the tangles in the strings. Repeat for every additional section.

Hanging was accomplished by zip-tying one of the peg boards to the light bar and then using the middle comb to straighten and provide tension on the lines. The bottom board was rolled with the excess string and screwed directly to the stage floor. At the points of the sections, the strings were gathered and zip-tied then screwed to the wall.

Materials:
2 4’x4′ 1″ pegboards
12 balls of white yarn ~$5 each
dozens of hours of prep and patience.

The Art: