Mexican yarn art

Give your fine motor skills a workout with brightly colored yarn paintings inspired by Huichol folk art of Mexico. Manipulate colorful lines into cactus, plants, and flowers on a wooden panel. $5 off...

DIY Fun Yarn Art: I bought yarns to learn how to crochet and knit but it didn't work that way! I think I'm too lazy for crocheting and knitting. But the yarns had to be useful so I though of doing some yarn art. I've seen fiber art, yarn art before but didn't know mu…

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Happy Cinco de Mayo! Create yarn art inspired by Huichol Yarn Paintings

Mexican yarn paintings are created by the Huichol Indians in colorful designs as expressions of deep spiritual beliefs. Diane Zubrick's classes created their own yarn painting using sticky foam boards from McMrf. You can use tacky glue, beeswax or sticky board as your base for your own yarn painting. Above is an example of the Huichol Indian's yarn painting. Below is the artwork from Dynamic Senior Solutions in Beavercreek plus Diane's example. They started with thicker nylon yarn to make…

Decoupage is a creative way to decorate any plastic, wood, glass or metal item. You can decorate with pictures cut out from old magazines, copies of photographs, wrapping paper and many other decorative papers. Wallpaper is a good choice to use when working with decoupage because it is thick and will not tear easily. ...

In this video I demonstrate how to make a mod podge mixture and use yarn scraps to make a bowl! Mixture:1 cup Flour1 cup watermix together in a bowlboil 2 cu...

Shop the finest authentic rustic furniture, mexican furniture, talavera tile and pottery, mexican tin mirrors, and more. La Fuente Imports offers one of the largest collections of Mexican and Southwestern home accessories, furnishings, and handmade art.

My 1st grade students are studying Weather and I thought this would be a fun lesson to link to their Weather Unit. The Huichol People of Mexico create wonderful art using wooden boards coated with a layer of beeswax. They push yarn into the coating of wax to create their designs. The Sun and the Moon are prevalent in their designs. I am going to use linoleum tile with an adhesive coating on the back instead of the traditional materials. I divided the one square foot of tile (purchased at a…