Yarn Bombing = Urban Knitting = Guerrilla Tricot !!

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Spotted last weekend in Leiden, near the train station: urban knitting.  That's probably the world's most inoffensive grafitti, as some people put it. And in Leiden there was a lot of it. When I say "a lot" I mean A LOT.

Finde passado durante uma caminhada em Leiden percebi numa praça atras da Estação Central as seguintes árvores cobertas em sobras de tricô e crochê.

According to aunt Wiki, examples of urban knitting have been recorded as early as May 2004 in Den Helder, Netherlands. In the U.S., in 2005 Texas knitters used their leftover and unfinished knitting projects, but it has since spread worldwide. The start of this movement 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 custom made cozy. The movement has been said to be "changing the face of craft" as stitchers are more and more frequently being viewed as fibre artists rather than amateurs or vandals.

A guerrila do tricot é um ato lúdico, e os primeiro exemplos de tricô e crochê em áreas públicas aconteceu em Den Helder, na Holanda em 2004. Depois sairam imitando pelo mundo afora.

Tecnicamente é ilegal sair tricotando (ou crochetando - leva mais tempo) as árvores, lixeiras de ruas, cercas et tals. Mas eu não acho um ato de vandalimo. E sobretudo no inverno, quando tudo fica cinza e esmaecido, esse choque de cores em lã no espaço público me parece um ato lúdico. E é facil de remover. 

Urban Knitting... 

Vandalism or a form of decorative expression ?

Cool of Fool ?

E aí ? Acharam legal ou apenas... bobo ?

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