View allAll Photos Tagged thread
I found this leaf hanging on my window pane by a very thin spider's web, a lone, clinging survivor of the storms that came through last night. It's been here all day.
Copyright 2009 - Informal Moments Photography
Photo by: Kelly Langner Sauer
All Rights Reserved
Playing with thread for my blog banner this month. Quite fitting, as I'm sewing up some love for my little valentines.
Ha Giang, Vietnam. Those cloaks and colors of a different world, enveloping all of those thoughts and sentiments that begin to unfurl. It's a sight to behold, those times of old, right before your eyes as they unfold. It is lovely, as the joy you see, to be there with this sight and have it as you leave.
Glowworm threads at Ruakuri cave. They actually aren't worms, but larva of the Fungus Gnat or Titiwai. While in the larva stage they will emit a small light (similar to that of a firefly or lightning bug). Titiwai create threads or lines that consist of a sticky substance. As the insect moves toward the light, they then become entangled within the threads and become food for the larva. They remain in larva stage for about nine months. The pupa takes about 13 days to hatch into a fly that only lives for three days. The adult has no mouth or digestive system and it's sole purpose is to breed and lay eggs. Once an adult, they immediately breed and lay about 120 eggs, which take about 20 days to return to larva stage. In a cave's darkness, it looks as if you are looking into a night's sky with constellations.
All rights reserved. Written permission required for usage.
Please do not use this photo on any websites or for personal use.
Thank you.
©2014 Fantommst
These flat strips, about 30" long, are fashioned with an eye on each end and an eye in the middle. As you face the loom, they are installed vertically in a line, going the width of the fabric being woven. A thread passes through the center eye of each heddle. In a simple weave, heddles raise or lower every other thread in a weave with each pass of the shuttle. A wall-sized peg board in the back of the mill held a supply of various lengths.
I didn't even remember that I had these purple threads. Well here they are in a straight line :)
Happy Tuesday!
66720 eases 6M26 Eastleigh to Montsorell past the Resignalling work at Banbury.A blockade commencing on the following day will see the end of the last traditional signalling on the Chiltern line.
At dusk, when the sky burns gold, light becomes a weaver. Fragile spider webs and humble ropes shimmer like threads of fire, turning simple bulbs into lanterns of the fading day. A gentle reminder that beauty often rests in the spaces between nature and craft.
Part of Rae Lakes stopped me with this view. I loved how these water plants created an illusion of threads of hair spreading across the body of water reflecting the backdrop of the pines and Painted Lady and Glen Pass far behind them. The tranquility certainly called for a break and appreciation of what was before my eyes, but I still had to make it to the campground. The rain clouds traveling over the peaks looked quite uninviting.
I tidied up my embroidery thread stash this week - no more tangled threads! Yay!
Blogged: bugsandfishes.blogspot.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-embroidery-...
Fort Lauderdale Air Show 2013
Black Diamond Jet Team
*[what a cool flight-maneuver! Amazing!]
Fantastic video of them! Feel the speed!
After noticing the interesting shadow a piece of floss made under artificial light, I experimented with white thread on white paper. I rotated the paper in the morning sun and watched the shadows change. I tried a couple with black thread, and liked those better, then tried colored thread. It was so interesting to see how the shadows looked so different than the string that made them.
The Spider Thread (Il filo del ragno)
(from a lecture by Masao Yokota)
The Buddha was in a lotus-filled garden when he perceived a man named “Kandata” who was squirming in the depths of Hell. He had been a murderer, an arsonist, and thief. A lifetime of these causes had put him in hell. He was in the company of others like him.
The Buddha looked further into Kandata’s life and saw an incident where Kandata came upon a spider. He raised his foot to stomp on it. Suddenly, he reconsidered, thinking, "There is no doubt that this spider is also a living being and it is a shame to take its life for no reason." In the end he spared the spider.
Knowing this, the Buddha took a spider thread and lowered it to into depths of Hell with the intention of saving Kandata.
Kandata reached for the thread and found it strong enough to hold his weight. Using all his strength he began lifting himself from Hell.
After some progress, he looked down and saw hundreds of others behind him climbing on the same spider thread.
He shouted back at them: “Get off! This is mine!” Just then, the thread broke and Kandata fell back into Hell.