Video: Yarn Bombers dress the streets in knitted graffiti
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
The 21st century works wonders. First, our mothers and grandmothers learned how to use mobile phones, then they risked getting to know a computer, and now they are decorating the streets with unusual graffiti. Moreover, their "victims" are not only walls and fences, but also monuments, benches, lamp posts, trees and even flower beds …
Naturally, activists do not run through the streets with shopping bags filled with cans of paint. Graffiti, which women are fond of, however, mainly in large cities of Europe and the United States, do not draw, but knit. This new trend is called "yarnbombing" or "urban knitting" (urban knitting), and those who are fond of this occupation are called "yarnbombers" or "yarn bombers". As a rule, such "bombers" are united in teams, and "to the point" go out all together, or in small groups.
It is believed that the founder of the "yarn bombing" was the American Magda Seyeg, who back in 2005 decorated the doors of her clothing store with a knitted cover, arousing a storm of emotions and curiosity among visitors and a lot of positive feedback. And she got the idea that it would be nice to decorate city streets, squares and public gardens in this way. And at the same time, there is an application for unsuccessful knitting, which is sadly gathering dust at home idle. The needlewoman interested her friends with this idea, who created a club called Knitta Please, and in more than four years dressed hundreds of benches, lanterns, trees, monuments and road signs not only in their cities, but also in neighboring states in knitted suits.
I don’t know how our townspeople would react to the poles and traffic lights dressed in multicolored knitting, and how they reacted to people dressing up monuments in colorful "suits". Probably, they would have called the police, simultaneously threatening the "violators" with a fine for hooliganism. Or they would call a mental hospital with a complaint that the city was flooded with mad knitters. Or maybe they would join a funny "flash mob". Here, as they say, - if you don't check - you won't know. And how fun it would be to go out onto the avenue, where instead of gray and dull lamp posts, rows of bright striped columns in knitted vests stand in rows!
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