Tiny glowing dots have been the modus operandi for electronic displays since the TV was first invented. But at a Forever 21 store in New York, you’ll find a giant screen that swaps pixels for spools ...

Our brains are great at forming images out of mishmashes and blotches of color, as a pointillist will tell you. Artist Ani Abakumova has taken that idea and applied it to simple colored threads to ...

Look around and count the number of screens surrounding you. You’ll probably run out of fingers before you’re done, but why stop there? Researchers at UC Berkeley have come up with a way to weave ...

What do you get when art meets math and computer programming? If you’re Ani Abakumova, what you get are stunning replicas of art historical masterpieces made from colored thread. The 32-year-old ...

While there are already electronic devices that detect toxic gases, they can be expensive, and require training to properly use. Soon, though, there could be a cheap and simple alternative – threads ...

Wearable tech is all the rage nowadays. Putting computer and chips on your glasses, on your contact lenses, even on your skin is the common trend, so that we never have to leave our electronic lives ...

Lieske Schreuder makes brightly colored threads and tiles out of snail excrement. She feeds a farm of hundreds of snails colored paper, and they poop out little colored pellets of snail excrement: ...

Gabriel Dawe's "Plexus" series is hard to describe, but even harder to photograph--think of it as weaving in colored thread in the air. (Courtesy Newark Museum) When Gabriel Dawe was growing up in ...

(Nanowerk News) The firefighter runs into the burning building and systematically searches room by room for people in need of rescue. Attached to him is a safety rope at the other end of which his ...

Brian Wills, "Untitled (YKB layered grid)" (2021-2022), single strand poly thread on oak with YKB, 36 x 36 inches (image courtesy the artist and Ochi Projects) LOS ANGELES — The pendulum of art world ...

This informative debut guide from quilting designer and teacher Lucas explores how thread color can add texture to a design. Addressing free-motion quilters (those who quilt with a regular domestic ...