Video: Graffiti embroidered with a cross on metal bars. Cross-Stitch Graffiti by Sarah Corbett
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It seems that needlework in general, and knitting in particular, has already ceased to be associated exclusively with grandmother's hobby and the hobby of housewives on maternity leave. So, young people seem to have rediscovered the delights of needlework, and big cities are decorated with either knitted graffiti from Knitta Please "yarn bombers", which we once wrote about on Culturology.ru, or with embroidered graffiti Cross-stitch graffiti from Sarah Corbett and a group of like-minded people called Craftivist Collective … Initially, Sarah did all this alone, in the sense that she decorated lifeless, cold lattices of fences, gates and windows with "embroidery" with a cross made of thick woolen threads, and called herself " A lonely craftivist". Why" Craftivist ", so because it is a derivative of the word" craft "(handicraft) and" activism "(activity). So active needlewomen make this world a better place, and the streets - more beautiful.
Today Sarah has a whole group of activist followers with whom she organizes handicraft protests on the streets of London, Liverpool, Bristol and Manchester. Banners for world peace, posters about environmental protection, as well as socio-political slogans and slogans - all this girls-needlewomen make, getting together in the "office" or just on the street. Cross-Stitch Graffiti, which Sarah started alone, also turned into a massive action, a kind of flash mob for those who care about what is happening in the world and want to make it a little better.
To see the work of Sarah Corbett and her fellow needlewomen from the Craftivist Collective, visit the A Lonely Craftivist page.
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