Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Who Needs Nails When You Can Meld Wood in a Vortex of Thread?
gizmodo.com: Most furniture has the business parts of its joints buried deep inside it somewhere. Screws hidden in hollow metal frames, screws driven deep into wood. The furniture made by Anton Alvarez wears its colorful thread joints on the outside. And the machine used to tie it all up is a beast.
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Although rather impractical as a fastener, this mechanism certainly makes for a cool conversation piece. The designs created through this machine are very cool, as shown in the video, and it helps show the wider variety of functions that thread has beyond just sewing. The array of thread appears to take the form of a spiderweb in a sense and that makes for a very aesthetically pleasing design in my opinion.
I have to agree with Will, as wildly impractical as this seems,it's pretty freaking cool. If one thread snaps, it creates a situation of the entire thing possibly unwrapping. So, sure, I wouldn't get one to put in my living room, but sometimes doing something sheerly to see if it can be done and then sold to someone is seriously awesome. Cool for the sake of cool is just fine by me.
I didn't fully understand the purpose Of the machine the first couple of seconds of the video, but when they started binding some of the basic joints together I became speechless. The thought of making furniture this way seems so cool, but it scares me. Yes you can customize the color of thread used to bind it all together, but I feel like someone can just cut a couple of strands and it begins to feel unstable. I also feel like the machine itself is dangerous to work with because all someone has to do is fall into the machine and loose a limb because its spinning the thread around so quickly.
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