Portraits Made With A Single Unbroken Black Thread Wrapped Around Nails.

Kumi Yamashita Thread Portraits

Get ready to have your mind blown. These Kumi Yamashita Thread Portraits are made with a single, unbroken thread.

Kumi Yamashita Thread Portraits

Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita, who now lives and works in New York, has been featured on several design sites for her amazing Origami Light and Shadow project (shown below) in which Japanese paper and creased and mounted on the wall to give off a shadow that emulates a human face profile.

Kumi Yamashita, Origami, Light and Shadow
Kumi Yamashita, Origami, Light and Shadow
Thread portraits
Constellation Mana (detail), 2011

Lesser known, but equally as impressive as her origami portraits, are her ongoing thread portraits. The Constellation series are portraits made by winding a single UNBROKEN black thread around nails hammered into a board to create the uncanny likeness of a face.

Constellation – Erik:, 2007, H46, W36, D3cm, Wood panel, brads, single sewing thread:
constellation series by Kumi Yamashita

Constellation Mana, 2011, H40, W30, D3cm, Wood panel, brads, single sewing thread:
contemporary art

Kumi Yamashita Thread Portraits on if it's hip, it's here

Constellation – Cy, 2011, H46, W36, D2cm, Wood panel, brads, single sewing thread (Private collection):
textile art

thread art

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Kumi Yamashita Thread Portraits

 Kumi Yamashita Thread art

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Constellation Steffan, Wood panel, brads, single sewing thread:
Portraits Made with a single thread

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