Texture of the Week: A Ball of Thread Scraps

I love using thread or yarn on my gel plate. These long, thin strings are one of very few non-botanical textures that create interesting silhouettes, but also leave a fantastic ghost texture on the gel plate.

But usually, I'm just laying a single, long thread across the plate, trying to create a variety of loops or wavy lines. After completing a bunch of hand and machine sewing this summer, I had a nice wad of thread scraps in my tiny sewing garbage.

Before throwing them in the actual garbage, I had a familiar thought....what would happen if I tried this on the gel plate?

On my first attempt, I left the bits in a rather compact ball, so I wasn't able to get a very interesting shape, and the ghost print was sort of....meh. But, then I started stretching the scraps out a bit. 

I LOVE the wild organic shapes created by the initial print, so many interesting small and large lines building a large "blob". 

I pulled the ghost texture after it had dried on the plate using a layer of paint in the color "parchment".  Both prints remind me of clumps of seaweed that are often lying on beaches near where I live. 

While I often love the ghost print more with thread or string, I think the initial silhouette was my favorite one from this wad of thread scraps. What do you think?