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Easy to guess, as this exact photo has been all over the blogosphere -- including AT on Oct. 1, 2008.

I am absolutely crazy for this. push pins and doilies? how simple, how clean... how delightful!

Yes, I've seen this photo numerous times now.

Came back today...after a long-ish break from the boredom...to another repost...which confirms why I think I've become bored with AT. Bye.

lovely.

Seriously, the "been there, done that" quality AT has is getting kind of grating.

I hadn't seen this until today, and I think it looks great. For someone on a super tight budget, something simple like this is totally do-able.

Beautifuuuuuul!

I also made some wall art for myself with thumbtacks... and a few hundred feet of thread.

I don't think of poppies when I see this. I think of the tedious task of trying to spackle all the holes after I get tired of looking at dusty doilies and orange thumbtacks.

@sub-culture: That is so cool! Great job.

I wonder how good this looks up close.

This looks like a project better done on a stretched canvas or sheet of foamcore rather than directly on the wall. That way you could incorporate the additional colour or texture of a fabric backing and avoid putting hundreds of holes in your wall.

"Seriously, the "been there, done that" quality AT has is getting kind of grating."

If a magazine like Metropolitain Home did this many repeats, they'd be out of business by now.

Oh, Wait...

sub-culture that picture looks so good ! is there a place i could get more designs?

It looks like Tod Boontje's kindergarden project.... cute idea...criminal for the wall.

Maybe applied to a branch shape wire would get a more "finished" look.

I like the idea but I agree with ngnerd, it would be dusty too quickly. I want to do what sub-culture did. I was at the museum this weekend and they had a string display and I wanted it in my house so badly. I need to find instructions online.

@amed studio: I think that putting it on foamcore or canvas is missing the point of "wall art"... there's a distinctly different aesthetic feel to something that's applied directly to a large surface vs hung up, that's why I think people get off on it. And, really, my design is 90 pinholes pushed halfway into the wall -- small enough to simply paint over vs spackling/painting over gaping holes from anchors.

@petrofoam: google "string art cardioid" (cardioid is the geometric curve of what I did, essentially two connected points traveling around a circle at different speeds) and you'll find tons more examples of different patterns.