YARN BOMBING
Yarn Bombing is…
A type of street art that employs colorful displays of knitted
or crocheted yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk.
• Although still considered a type of graffiti, yarn bombing is
widely accepted in the regular and art communities since it is
NOT permanent, won’t damage the object being covered and
can be easily removed.
Yarn Bombing has been attributed to Magda
Sayeg, 37, from Houston, who says she “first
got the idea in 2005 when she covered the
door handle of her boutique with a custommade cozy”.
“Yarn bombing transforms knitting from a domestic
endeavor to public art, recontextualizing both
knitting and graffiti, both of which are marginalized
creative endeavors that fall outside “high art.”
Yarn bombing was initially almost
exclusively
about
reclaiming
and
personalizing sterile or cold public places.
Now, organizations all over the world yarn
bomb for many different reasons.
• “Some engage in yarn
bombing as a fun and
creative way to use up left
over yarn, others consider
it an urban intervention to
personalize otherwise cold
and impersonal spaces or
to make socio- political
statements. Humor is
often a major component
of yarn bombing, which by
its nature embodies
contradictory
idiosyncrasies within
itself”.
Pittsburgh Yarn Bombing
- Knit the Bridge is a
vision for a grassroots,
community-led arts
project that would
bring the many diverse
communities of
Pittsburgh and
Southwestern
Pennsylvania together
to create a large-scale,
aesthetically stunning,
fiberarts installation on
a bridge in downtown
Pittsburgh.
• http://www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com/abo
ut.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
• http://knitthebridge.wordpress.com/tag/pitts
burgh-yarn-bomb/