or drop it here · a face, close up and evenly lit, works best
It never leaves this device.
This renders on your computer, not on the server. It runs in the background — keep designing while it works, and the file downloads when it is done.
Three ways to own it — and the differences matter: one is a print of your design, one is the finished piece, and one is a kit of parts. What arrives is spelled out under each. Every price is calculated from your actual design — its size, number of colours, and the amount of winding required.
Three ways to own your portrait: printed and posted, as a picture to print yourself, or as the instructions to wind it yourself. What you get is spelled out under each.
Not sure what any of this looks like in practice?
Or see finished pieces on real walls in the gallery.
Your design is square and the sheet is not, so it prints in the middle of the sheet with a border around it. A tall sheet leaves more space above and below.
Downloads are kept in My orders, so sign in first.
Your address goes to the artist so the parcel can reach you. What happens to your details.
Nothing is paid on this tablet. Your name and the one way to reach you go to the artist, who will message you to confirm the piece, the price and where to send it. That is all this asks for.
Drag to move it, scroll or pinch to zoom. The circle is where the nails go — what is outside it is not drawn.
The nail template is drawn at true size. Print at 100% with scaling turned off, tape the sheets to the board and drill through the marks.
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A string art piece contains no curves. Every thread running between two nails is perfectly straight. The curve you see is an envelope — the shape that appears where many straight lines crowd together and their edges begin to agree. Nothing draws it. It arrives as a by-product of a counting rule: go round the circle, skip the same number of nails each time, repeat until you are back where you started. The rule is small enough to write on a card. The result is not.
Benoit Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature makes the same observation at a much larger scale. A coastline, a fern, a river basin, the branching of a lung: each carries patterns that echo across different scales. Move closer, and familiar forms keep appearing. That is what I mean by things being connected — not that everything is secretly one thing, but that a fern and a coastline and a wound thread are built by the same method. Once you have noticed it, you keep noticing it.
The other two books treat string art as something to investigate rather than something to decorate with. Change the number of nails, change the skip, and the whole family of shapes shifts in ways that turn out to be number theory: factors, remainders, cycles that close early or run long before they return. That is the part this studio makes usable. You set the rule — how many nails, how far each step jumps, how many turns — and it works out the winding, in real millimetres, as one continuous thread you could actually follow with your hands.
String Art Ninja Project
We have always been drawn to beautiful geometry — fractals, repetition, rhythm, and the strange moment when a simple pattern suddenly becomes something alive.
We find the same feeling in music: a rhythm repeats, slowly transforms, and at some point you stop following it consciously. You simply fall into it. Geometry can do the same. Lines repeat, intersect and multiply until they create something much greater than the simple rule behind them — a form you can almost get lost in.
This shared fascination brought our different talents together in the String Art Ninja Project — a creative project somewhere between art, mathematics, technology and meditation.
Our works are made from straight threads stretched between points. Yet when hundreds of these lines meet, the eye begins to see curves, depth, movement and unexpected forms. A small mathematical rule can grow into something surprisingly organic.
And then imagination begins to play.
Look at the same piece for a while and you may discover an Om symbol, a cosmic owl, a triad, an eye, a portal, a flower, a galaxy, or perhaps something that exists only in your own imagination.
There is no single correct image.
At StringArt.Ninja, you can explore our personal collection, but you can also become the creator yourself. Change the rules, move through different patterns, experiment with repetition and colour, and watch a new form emerge from your choices.
For us, this is the most interesting part: the point where mathematics stops feeling like calculation and becomes an experience.
Follow the lines. Find your own pattern.
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The studio is a drawing board: a big canvas and a lot of dials. On a phone you get a trimmed-down version — enough to make something, order it and share it, but the finer controls are folded away.
Open stringart.ninja on a computer when you want the whole thing.
A link is created the moment you share, and anyone who has it can see the picture and open the design. Nothing is public until then.
Instagram, TikTok and Reels take a video file, not a link — so this renders here on your machine and hands the file straight to the app you pick. Nothing is uploaded to the studio.
Not rendered yet.
Designs you kept. Open one to carry on where you left off — it restores every setting exactly.
Everything you have ordered, with its receipt and the files that came with it. The Order row is the number to quote if you need to ask about one — how to reach me.
You are entitled to a copy of everything held about you, and to have it erased. Both are one click — no email, no waiting.
Deleting removes your profile and your saved gallery, and takes down any design you have shared — links you posted elsewhere will stop working. Orders you have placed are kept as accounting records, with your name and address stripped out.
This cannot be undone. Type DELETE to confirm.
What the shop says about its own products, and how somebody
reaches you. These used to be settings on the board, which meant ssh and a
restart to change a sentence. Secrets are not here and will not be — the
Google secret, the Telegram token, the SMTP password and the session key stay
in /etc/stringart.env, which this service cannot write.
The materials the shop names on every product card and in the worked example.
The thread you actually have. Customers can only order a finished piece or a kit in these colours, so this list is what keeps you from selling something you cannot make.
The colours you can finish a board in. Bought in tins rather than reels, so no length to track — a name and a colour is the whole of it. Leave it empty if every board is the same.
What you will physically build, as opposed to what the studio will draw. A design past any of these cannot be ordered as a finished piece or a kit — a poster is printed, so it is never refused.
I count visits with Google Analytics, to see which designs people make. It sets cookies and shares your visit with Google. Nothing is stored until you say yes, and the studio works exactly the same either way.
String Art Studio · by Immersa team
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