This is not an LED display, it’s a thread display. The hardware artists over at Breakfast, a Brooklyn based rapid product and prototype company, built this color display that uses spools of thread for ...

WALDEN — Hundreds of spools of material are stacked high on shelves from floor to ceiling. Old worn black sewing machines with large spools of thread attached sit alongside a huge cutting table.

In the old days when clothes were sewn and mended at home instead of bought ready-made, spools of thread were household essentials. You would see a spool cabinet in any country store, usually on the ...