Geometry is the maths that makes the world pretty. OK, that's not necessarily true, really it's a combo of physics and chemistry producing shapes and colours, plus I suppose biology - our ability to see and interpret the beauty. Geometry is the study of the shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. So whether those shapes are the hexagons of a honey comb; the pentagram core of an apple,the circles of colour in your eyes... Well you get the picture. All geometry.
Today's make was inspired by fiddling about with a strip of paper left over from cutting out a pattern: folding it, twisting it and eventually tying a knot while I mused about the pattern in question. The knot made by a tied strip of paper is pentagonal (five sided) in shape.
If you tie a thumb knot as shown and flatten it down, then repeat the process four more times you can close the loop to create a pentagon out of a ring of pentagonal knots.
It struck me that such a pentagon, made from a folded inkle band would make a rather stylish decoration, for Christmas, or just for fun. So I looked through my inkle bands and chose the most festively coloured. Last year I created an inkle band choker from some festivally coloured cotton and a handful of beads. The left overs from that weave were perfect to turn into a prototype ornament. I quickly set about tying the knots. There was a bit of adjusting required to get the knots to lie snugly next to each other, but with a tug here and a push there the pentagon began to take shape.
The ornament was very pretty on its own, but adding a bell gives it a little Jingle Bells festive fun. What do you think? With a bell or without? Tell me which version you'd prefer and if you'd like to see some other examples pop over to my website, here.
No comments:
Post a Comment