Odds are you won’t have heard of ‘yarnstorming’. It’s better known in America as ‘yarnbombing’ but that probably doesn’t help either, unless of course you are a knitting aficionado or perhaps have been paying particular attention to the news.
Yarnbombing, or yarnstorming, or guerilla knitting or urban knitting, can be described simply as graffiti art, the difference being the medium used is not spraycans or paint but needles and wool.
Non-permanent graffiti
The idea of knitted installation art, a form of non-permanent graffiti, made its way from America to London in the mid 2000s where a group of knitters now known as ‘Knit the City’ took the idea from across the pond and adapted it.
