Crown of Thorns (woodworking)
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The Crown of Thorns is a woodworking
technique using interlocking wooden sticks that are notched to intersect at right angles forming joints and self supporting objects, objects that have a "prickly" and transparent quality. Common examples include wreath- shaped picture frames that look similar to Jesus' "crown of thorns".
Larger-scale crowns may use the principles of tensegrity
structures, where the wooden sticks provide rigidity and separate cables in tension carry the forces that hold them together.
Woodworking
Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood.-History:Along with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood...
technique using interlocking wooden sticks that are notched to intersect at right angles forming joints and self supporting objects, objects that have a "prickly" and transparent quality. Common examples include wreath- shaped picture frames that look similar to Jesus' "crown of thorns".
Larger-scale crowns may use the principles of tensegrity
Tensegrity
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression, is a structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members do not touch each other and the prestressed tensioned members delineate the...
structures, where the wooden sticks provide rigidity and separate cables in tension carry the forces that hold them together.
See also
- puzzle work
- sailor work
- interlocking woodwork
- tramp art