By a Thread by Dominic Wilcox
January 31, 2010 
London designer Dominic Wilcox has spent 75 hours wrapping multi-coloured cotton thread around five walking sticks, which are on show at the YCN gallery in London.
The threads are transferred from spools and wound tightly round the sticks by hand to produce a fabric-like covering.
The canes are on show as part of a Christmas shop at the gallery called My Two Front Teeth, which continues until 23 December.
Here’s some text from Dominic Wilcox:
–
Cotton thread is wound onto a wooden walking cane, one spool at a time. The thread is methodically wound tightly together to give the strength and finish of a fine material.Each cane is completely random from the others due to the making process of choosing each new colour one at a time. The process takes approximately fifteen hours in total. Each stick is signed and dated by Dominic Wilcox.
I always have enjoyed the concept of giving an object a second skin. The process of wrapping using a string, rope or thread in order to create a 3 dimensional shape was in my mind for a couple of months. I chose a walking cane partly because it is an object much overlooked by designers, perhaps it is seen as unfashionable or having negative connotations by some. I wanted to change that in this cane and make something that was confident and not embarrassed of its own existence.
I love the simple shape and curve of the bent wood which I think is highlighted by the thread. I do find that a great deal of my work requires some sort of obsessional behaviour. The process of wrapping the cane takes concentration and patience and I found it cleared my mind of all the stresses of everyday thoughts, which is a very good thing!
My Two Front Teeth – A Christmas Shop from YCN at 72 Rivington Street
From the 1st to the 23rd December YCN will be presenting a very special Christmas shop in the ground floor at 72 Rivington Street.
Billed as My Two Front Teeth, and produced in partnership with Jiggery Pokery, the festive store will present a plethora of specially commissioned gift items contributed by a host of creative collaborators.
Contributions include Dominic Wilcox’s cotton styled walking canes, Saskia Pomeroy’s glow in the dark lunar calendars, Henrietta Swift’s ‘lighten the mood’ sticker sets and a family of wreaths by Hattie Newman. Personally curated stockings will also be on offer; hand-made by the likes of Fred Butler, Donna Wilson, SHOWstudio and Mother among others.
Hundreds of christmas cards have been personally illustrated by artists internationally and newly screenprinted wrapping paper will also be on offer. London based illustrator Valero Doval has been commissioned to create a pack of ‘Christmas Pets’ cards to extend his brilliant Circus Pets family of embellished found postcards produced earlier in the year.
Source: dezeen.com
Reader Comments (2)
osCommerce Developer
osCommerce Developers
Do you need osCommerce Developers? Our company is the correct place for your osCommerce development requirements! Our developers have been developing on osCommerce since 10 years now. NetTrackers has expert osCommerce developers to get your started now!.
Do you need a fresh osCommerce or shopping cart installed?
osCommerce is an extremely stable and well used GPL shoping cart. Get into osCommerce development right away with our team. Our years of osCommerce experience allows us to advise you on getting the most from your ecommerce website very quickly. Our developers have years of familiarity with osCommerce modules and can rapidly assist in your shopping cart solution.
You have questions - we have experts
Have an existing shopping cart and need an upgrade by our expert osCommerce development service?
NetTrackers also offers upgrade services for your exisiting ecommerce website. Our ecommerce development team can tweak your existing store design and turn into a world class ecommerce property. We also offer additional optimization services to make your online shopping business a success.
Contact us to see how we can get you up and running quickly and inexpensively.
Additional Services - Complete Solutions
In addition to osCommerce development, NetTrackers also provides many other services, including oscommerce customization, oscommerce modules development, oscommerce templates development and related consulting.
osCommerce Programmer
osCommerce Developers
Does your firm need ecommerce programmers? Our office is the correct place for your osCommerce development requirements! We have succesfully been developing the osCommerce shopping cart program since 2000. We have osCommerce Expert Developers that can assist in your osCommerce website develoment immediately.
Need new osCommerce shopping cart installs?
Stability + Security + Speed = osCommerce. Rapidly develop your ecommerce website with osCommerce. Our years of osCommerce experience allows us to advise you on getting the most from your ecommerce website very quickly. Our developers will pin point the exact osCommerce module for your requirements and get the job you need done very quickly.
We are happy to clear all your doubts!
Have an existing shopping cart and need an upgrade by our expert osCommerce development service?
NetTrackers also offers upgrade services for your exisiting ecommerce website. Our ecommerce development team can tweak your existing store design and turn into a world class ecommerce property. We also offer additional optimization services to make your online shopping business a success.
Contact us to see how we can get you up and running quickly and inexpensively.
Additional Services - Complete Solutions
In addition to osCommerce development, NetTrackers also provides many other services, including oscommerce customization, oscommerce modules development, oscommerce templates development and related consulting.