Art Mosaics Of Nails, Toothpicks, Corks By Saimir Strati!

Artist Saimir Strati of Albania is one of the world's best mosaic artists. He has created works in such unusual materials as eggshells, sea glaa, compact dics, and beans. Here are three examples of some of his more famous works.


In 2007 Saimir took 40 days and 1.5 million toothpicks to create an amazing portrait of a horse.

Three varieties of wood were used and some were sharpened, others dulled down. Various lengths of toothpick added to the depth of the art.

How many times have you looked around the house for a toothpick and couldn't find one. Saimir had them all!

When finished the work was 86.11 square feet in size and acknowledged by Guinness as the World's Largest Toothpick Mosaic!

Beautiful, actually.

The year before the horse portrait Saimir tackled a likeness of Leonardo da Vinci.

With nails!

400 kilos of nails were used and that comes to about a half a million.

Nails had to hammered to varying depths and the way they overlapped needed to be planned in advance.

All of the artisit's mosaics have been compared to digital images. Instead of a million pixels of light in varying colors forming a picture these artworks use... other things.

Robot Nine wonders if working on a portrait sideways complicates the process of capturing a likeness.

Taken from a self-portrait drawn by da Vinci, this is astounding, and another notch in his Guinness belt for World's Largest Nail Mosaic.

What to do with all of those old wine corks you have? If you happen to have an extra 230,000 of them you might as well do a mosaic on the wall at the Sheraton Hotel.

Corks make this a seriously large scale project requiring not just time and planning, but also scaffolding.

Did we mention it was large scale?

It sucks when you drop just the right cork! Especially if world political leaders are visiting as happened on numerous occasion during this project. One of the visitors was his Albania's Prime Minister, Sali Berisha

Guess what? Correct, another Guinness for World's Largest Cork Mosaic.

Who knew thay had all of these categories? Robot Nine is going to do a mosaic using a million of something or other. One day...

Visit Saimir Strati's website and his Wikipedia entry.