Street Arts
On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. "Knit graffiti" is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet and knitting artists of all ages, nationalities, and genders. Its practitioners create stunning works of art out of yarn, then "donate" them to public spaces as part of a covert plan for world yarn domination.
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-color DIY book features twenty kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture. Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags. The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement; it's also chock full of beautiful photographs and easy step-by-step instructions for knit and crochet installations and garments.
LSD NOTE: We interviewed Yarnstormers Knit the City in a past issue. We found this video online so added that...
- Knit The City - Lsd Magazine Interview
Knit the City Exclusive LSD Interview (Issue Two Out Now) Yarn-Storming is fast becoming a big hit with newly found knitting clubs falling over themselves to cover fair cities around the world in brightly colored wool... Knit the City are based in the...
- Yarn Bombing: Tea Time In London
Back in July of this year Hookedblog photographed some yarn bombing / knit bombing street art work just off Brick Lane in East London. Two weeks later we ran into the artist on Sclater Street, London working on some new yarn installations. This yarn...
- Olek Hits London With Some Crochet
We bumped into Polish-born, New York based artist Olek on Tuesday afternoon in East London.The yarm bombing guerrilla artist was installing one of signature crochet piece on Sclater Street in East London. The small step ladder has been wrapped...
- Yarn Bombing — Hot+tea London
We spotted some pink yarn tied to some railings, blowing in the wind yesterday and being the curious sort that we are at Hookedblog we crossed the street to have a closer look. The yarn had been woven through the railings and we were just about able...
- Tags Book
The Book Of Tags is a Dropdrop Agency project, published by kitchen 93 and made possible by the collaboration of over 300 world-wide graffiti writers. The project attempts to analyze and also give voice to one of the most demonized yet pure means of...
Street Arts
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti - Buy Book Here
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-color DIY book features twenty kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture. Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags. The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement; it's also chock full of beautiful photographs and easy step-by-step instructions for knit and crochet installations and garments.
LSD NOTE: We interviewed Yarnstormers Knit the City in a past issue. We found this video online so added that...
- Knit The City - Lsd Magazine Interview
Knit the City Exclusive LSD Interview (Issue Two Out Now) Yarn-Storming is fast becoming a big hit with newly found knitting clubs falling over themselves to cover fair cities around the world in brightly colored wool... Knit the City are based in the...
- Yarn Bombing: Tea Time In London
Back in July of this year Hookedblog photographed some yarn bombing / knit bombing street art work just off Brick Lane in East London. Two weeks later we ran into the artist on Sclater Street, London working on some new yarn installations. This yarn...
- Olek Hits London With Some Crochet
We bumped into Polish-born, New York based artist Olek on Tuesday afternoon in East London.The yarm bombing guerrilla artist was installing one of signature crochet piece on Sclater Street in East London. The small step ladder has been wrapped...
- Yarn Bombing — Hot+tea London
We spotted some pink yarn tied to some railings, blowing in the wind yesterday and being the curious sort that we are at Hookedblog we crossed the street to have a closer look. The yarn had been woven through the railings and we were just about able...
- Tags Book
The Book Of Tags is a Dropdrop Agency project, published by kitchen 93 and made possible by the collaboration of over 300 world-wide graffiti writers. The project attempts to analyze and also give voice to one of the most demonized yet pure means of...