Some days
ago I posted on Facebook the photos of a car and of some trees “attacked” by Yarn
Bombing. Today I’m going to tell you a bit about this movement.
Also known
as yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting, is a
street art that uses colourful knitted or crocheted creations in their
displays. It is said that it came out from the necessity of finding a way out
for all those unfinished projects and leftovers that all the crocheters and
knitters have.
The process
and the result are very funny, both for people making the yarn installations
and for the people seeing the process of setting them into place. Those people
sewing in the street, sometimes at ungodly hours (like when Teje la araña put
the bollards in Madrid) are not crazy.
