The AccessArt Loom Band Sculpture

During the summer of 2014, the loom band craze hit the UK. AccessArt invited children everywhere to send us their loom band creations so that we could knit, weave and tie them together to make a wonderful loom band sculpture!

We created a sculpture full of summer nostalgia and colour. We took childhood toys such as a bike, a scooter, a fishing rod and net, a hula hoop, together with an old umbrella and some found objects. We reassembled all the objects and transformed them by covering them with the loom band creations. Enjoy!

Loom bands sculpture

saddle side

Loom bands fishtail

21f

21e

handbar

spout

fly

personbrolly

21d

coil

chimney

brolly

brolly2

crossbars

21b

21a

21c

loom bands in progress

loom bands spiral

loom bands bike

loom bands sculpture

The AccessArt Loom Band Sculpture

making loom bands

The AccessArt Loomband Project was featured on BBC Newsnight’s article by Stephen Smith Is the loom bands craze ‘inspiring art’?

Is the loom bands craze 'inspiring art'?

 

AccessArt is a UK charity which aims to inspire visual arts exploration. See all our resources at /find-a-resource/

Many thanks to Loom Bandtastic for donating 50,000 bands to our project.