ROSCOMMON, Mich. | A woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” by making a replica out of laundry lint.
Laura Bell collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot-tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter’s masterpiece.
Bell said she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, plus 200 hours to re-create the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.
Her artwork has caught the eye of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, which plans to put it on display at one of its museums. Ripley’s said it also has Last Supper replicas painted on a grain of rice and a dime, and one concocted from slices of burned toast.
