Rusty Old Balls
Just a short post today. What do you think this lot is (and please don’t say a load of old junk!). To help you, I will tell you that the drums of rope are about 3cm tall (just over an inch in old money).
I haven’t got time to keep you in suspense today so I will explain: I am working on my next project for a textile exhibition with Nolitex, and these objects will form part of the work. They are not rusty old bits of metal but artfully disguised bits of Friendly Plastic (not the rope of course). I say “artfully” but that is a conceit as in reality they were the results of my experiments with some patination and rusting fluids which I purchased when I was in America. I do believe you can get the same stuff over here in the UK, the range is called Sophisticated Finishes by Triangle Crafts.
I used Friendly Plastic Pellets for some of the pieces, and lots of scraps that I recycled for others; the results were the same once I had coloured them and rusted them. The rope drums are made over pipe lagging using some very rope-like cord (patination fluid treated as well).
I thought some of you out there might be interested in seeing something a little different on the FP front, it might just set you off on some train of thought you might like to share with the rest of us. And you know of course, that if you do put a post on your blog about it, then Linda will capture it and tell the world via the Friendly Plastic Blog, so you will be instantly catapulted into Friendly Plastic Fame!!!
These are amazing – I was completely fooled and thought they were bits from old sailing boats or something similar. They look so genuinely antique and decayed. What a super technique to have learned.
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Heather you are really going to have to stop being so nice to me :0)
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I swear i thought it was a load of rusted metals ready to be thrown away, but As i read on, it was an artfully (as u have described it)disguised bits of Friendly Plastic. I didn’t know that this is possible. Im new in your blog so I hope you can tell me/us more about the benefits of this and how to make one.
– John
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Giw interesting! I didn’t know that Friendly Plastic was able to do this.
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How interesting! I didn’t know that Friendly Plastic was able to do this.
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Hi!
Today I posted an entry on my blog with a link to yours.
I’d appreciate your letting me know if that’s OK.
Thanks,
Nancy Ward
http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com
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Thanks guys, I just love playing with this stuff and seeing where it will go.
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You’re welcome Lizzie. Keep up the good work and keep sharing your new arts.
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