India has created an amazing string art work as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement under British-ruled India.
It was created live to commemorate Gandhi’s 86th death anniversary. It took four Indian artists 40 hours to finish it. They used 15,000 nails and kilometers of string on a 10×16 ft board.
Mahatma Gandhi string art in New Delhi
String art involves wrapping thread, wire, or string around pins in a defined pattern. String art has its origins in the “curve stitch” activities invented by Mary Everest Boole. Boole was an English self-taught mathematician who lived between 1832 and 1916. She hoped that string art would make mathematical concepts more accessible to children.
Gandhi’s string art portrait was displayed at Ambience Mall in New Delhi in 2016. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi on January 30, 1948.
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