104 year old yarn bomber.

Grace Brett is a member of a secret band of guerilla Crocheters, who have bedecked their town in artful crochets. Called the Souter Stormers, the group hit various landmarks in Selkirk, Borders, with their yarn work last week, following hours of preparation. Members of the yarn bombing team are mainly over 60, but Grace – the oldest – has lived over a century.

Crocheting Hyperbolic Planes: Daina Taimiņa

Published on Jul 13, 2012

Watch re-edited version of this video http://youtu.be/D-AHvZqbMT4

A mathematician, artist and lecturer at the Cornell University, USA, Daina Taimiņa one day picked up a crochet hook, bright crochets and visualied apparently very complicated mathematical concepts that prior to Daina's artwork were only understood by highly experienced mathematicians.

Playing with the crotchets, Daina has created an entirely different understanding of the hyperbolic planes and has created a tangible way for the young scholars to master it. Daina is passionate about art, travelling and the geometry in the ornaments of various cultures.

Full transcript with pictures on author's blog: http://hyperbolic-crochet.blogspot.

THREADONISM NECK-LACES (LATTICE WORK)

Only minutes ago I snapped some pictures of some THREADONISM handycrafts, designed, hand-crafted and modelled by Janne. I feel that the interaction of hyperbolic objects with the human body is an important one, having the evidence - with you and on you - whenever you please. This interaction with the body is explored with jewellry, clothing, bracelets, necklaces, ear-rings etc. A kind of yarnbomb on the body, extending the possibility for communication of THREADONISM and some hyperbolic signifiers.



I can't help but notice the similarity between some coral and some flowers when looking at these images; the spiral contour of the threads, the soft tone and fluffy topology - perceived by the eye and the body, to touch with the hand and follow the threads, to - feel - the shapes and surfaces. This kind of interaction with threads, knots, patterns and shapes might be considered alongside the practice of yarnboming in the urban - mostly non-fabric coated - environment.





To entice the mind to reach out and touch, and to provide a tactile interface with the hyperbolic. non-euclidean models - left out there, somewhere in the city - for an accidental meeting with a remarkable stranger. (Which brings me to a short story I am writing about a group of radical all-female group of yarnbombers who take over a small city and transform it into a Temporary Autonomous Zone, where Objects are not what they appear to be, and the rationality and logic built around the new non-euclidean, non-aristotelian, synergetic principles of this group - weave together a Utopian society, for a brief period of time. I digress.)

And Please, if you would like to purchase any of these items they will be available from www.threadonism.com (or contact janne420 @ live.nl) -- Steve Fly

THREADONISM.COM

Please visit the website of Janne (the artist and craftsperson) behind THREADONISM. The purpose of this blog' is to provide to research and expansion of some of the principles behind THREADONISM.

http://www.threadonism.com/