It is an Engraved burlap wall hanging. Yep, I said engraved! Crazy right?

I was going to try and freezer paper stencil the Eiffel Tower on. As I was preparing all of my stuff to cut the freezer paper on the laser engraver, I had a Eureka! moment. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could get the laser to engrave on the burlap? With some luck it will turn dark brown and look painted, or stamped.
Lots of fiddling around with the settings later, I got it to work. I was a little worried because burlap is very flammable and the laser has caused a fire or two in it’s time. Thankfully we were blaze free!! I am so excited with the way it turned out. I have lots of ideas rolling around for other things I could engrave on burlap.
Here is a close-up shot of the tower. It looks like the laser just sort of burned away some of the “fluff” in the fibers. When you compare engraved to not engraved, the weave looks much farther apart on the engraved.


For anyone saying, you did what with a WHAT? Here is a link to previous post that has some pictures and explains a little bit better about my laser engraver! http://cuteasafox.com/2010/04/self-indulgance.html