Why do many thousands of people follow when the Danish designer and influencer Lærke Bagger posts knitting photos on instagram daily? Weaver and folk high school teacher Hanne Lange Houlberg looks at the textile community around Lærke Bagger as a framework for freedom, commitment and pattern breaking.
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[…] exhibition ‘Digital Echoes’ is a study in openings. Drua Sif Simone Albrechtsen is a programmer, designer, maker and artist all rolled into one. She works with digital knitting and creates objects that open up to the viewer in terms of form, while also opening up our understanding of what digital knitting can be. Her […]
[…] consists of 278 knitted modifications of sculptures and artworks from the Faroe Islands and the entire Danish territory. Each of the 278 citizens with a flair for knitting was individually encouraged to select a sculpture or artwork in the public space near them that they wanted to reflect upon. Initially, each participant recreated the […]
[…] international concepts, one obvious precursor is Issey Miyake’s A-POC (A Piece of Cloth), launched in 1997. Originally, A-POC consisted of a ribbed fabric produced on a circular knitting machine with added seams or welds. The idea was that the consumer would cut the garments out of the fabric by cutting along the seams and […]
[…] spun, woven, crocheted, knitted, braided or felted, the purpose is the same: binding a vast number of tiny fibres close together in formations that now suddenly possess new potential and capacity. The loose fibres become fabric, knitting, felt or mesh, which in turn becomes clothing, sails, fishing nets and upholstery – among many other objects.
Isabel Berglund’s and Anita Bracalente’s exhibits have more powerful colour statements. Isabel Berglund covers found objects in knitting, for example her surreal object Table Pet (2016), a console table wrapped in thick, black knitting, or her Soft Arrow (2020) group featuring Berglund’s own paint stirring sticks covered in knitting in bright colours. Anita Bracalente’s […]
[…] we are seeing a movement back towards manual, creative and meaningful activities, supported by societal tendencies such as sustainability, slow living and mental health. Activities such as knitting, sewing, pottery, wood carving and basket weaving are now considered not only as creative expressions or occupations, but also as paths to calm, presence and well-being. […]
Wool is many things. First and foremost, a warm covering for a sheep. Wool is cozy sweaters. Wool is grandma-vibes and knitting. But wool can also be a wasted resource, entrepreneurship, an artistic material, a medium for designers and artisans, and ultimately terroir-based, sustainable development of a rural district. This is at least the […]
[…] by Western-educated men in the study and documentation of languages. At the level of dialects, this problem is even more pronounced. Terms describing clothing, textile, crafts, techniques, knitting and tools are absent from mainstream dictionaries. Lervad abandoned the traditional methods of terminology research as she was unable to apply a text-based approach. Instead, she […]
[…] we wish to change. There is a clear interest in things created by hand that emphasize slowness and sensuous qualities. The young generations are taking online ‘ knitting tutorials’ because they did not learn the skill from previous generations. Repair cafés pop up in European cities, and ceramics courses in Denmark are fully signed […]