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Dave Lampman is currently active making and selling LathArt like this. After you have scrolled thru this page to learn how to make LathArt, be sure to visit his Slatcraft site under Other Lathart and Woodcraft Sites

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Degroot did a wonderful job on these flowers on the windowsill. It's hard to beat his sense of LathArt.When you have finished learning how to make LathArt, enjoy our other sites, particularly the Help and Discussion Blog at http://latharthelp.blogspot.com/ to see how other LathArtists are designing and making their own LathArt

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Here you will find all you need to know about making LathArt.Links to our other LathArt sites will lead you to discussion, projects and moneymakeing ideas.We are artists who, in the 90’s took a detour into LathArt. We found a piece of Degroot LathArt in Robinson’s wallpaper store in North Carolina while on vacation and had it sent home We designed a few more pieces. All was quiet until the house

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There is no need to use the exact sizes in the instructions, but it should be close. Ideally the wood should be about 1/4" thick and 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" wide. The frames can be the same size or slightly thicker and wider.The wood should not be too "hairy" the way some stickers that have been ripped from green wood can be. The frames look nice hairy though.If your wood depot doesn't carry this wood

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As woodworkers you probably know a lot about applying stains to wood. You know that different woods react differently and will absorb varied amounts of color. This is all part of the ORIGINAL WORK OF ART you are making here.Here are a few good ideas for painting your lathart.1. You can use deck stains. The colors are all nice and muted, and the transparency is close to perfect. If you are

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Sometimes lathart looks best when it is very simple as you can see from some of the Degroot paintings and some of the examples below.The easiest way to create a nice design quickly is to divide your painting into background and foreground. The backgound section will be make out of lath and can consist of sky and ground, wall and floor, sky and water, sky and mountains and water. An example of a

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If you click on the pictures below you will get a larger picture, and if you click on that you will get an even larger one. Now you can clearly see the lath direction lines.You may want to print a few small copies of this pattern to try out colors, or you can simply follow my suggestions.Scale the pattern up to the finished size you want, and make 2 copies of your large size pattern, one to cut

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While there are other artist that have made, and continue to make very nice Lath Art, one of my favorites is the Degroot Some of his Lath Art was mass produced in the 1970's by Austin Productions, and these today cost anywhere from $10 on ebay to $500 for a limited edition. Uses 1/4 inch thick real wood slats (ceder), and quite rustic. Here are a few more examples. They are all probably still his

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Step by Step procedure for making Authentic Wood Lath Art.You can enlarge theFirst Project Preview - Original Patternby clicking on either of the pictures so that you can better see the lath direction lines.You can buy the lath wood strips, (the suggested sizes are in this guide), or you can rip them yourself from a 2 by 4. I can usually make a large painting using one 2 by 4.The Guide1. Making

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