Clock Face & Findings for Art

As artists use unique items to embellish collages and fabric art, we become aware that more and more items we would have thrown away are suitable. 

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This also falls into today’s recycling world of using older items to make new.  (Something the pioneers and those who lived through the Great Depression did as a matter of course.)

Clock and watch parts make likely items for unique art.  Save your old, unworkable ones.  Look for them at yard sales and auctions.  If that’s not enough, you even can find them at some collage and scrapbooking supply stores.

Among the watch findings are: screws, spokes, faces, springs, hands, bezels, etc.  Most mixed media artists prefer the older ones, but if you’re into space age art, you might use the digital parts.

Use these items alone or mix and match with others.