A Finnish Himmeli Turns Straw Into Moving Geometry
A stalk of rye looks like an unlikely building material. But cut its hollow stem into short tubes, run thread through them, and you can make a shape that holds together in the air. Link several of those shapes and you have a Finnish himmeli , a traditional hanging mobile. Part of its charm is that it never quite looks the same twice. As it turns, lines that seemed to cross a moment ago separate again.