More links to both the "interesting" and to the "downright wierd"
Fashion designer Benjamin Cho gave new meaning to the term “knit dress” at his Fall 2007 runway show
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/02/knit_dress_by_benjamin_cho_at.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954
Penguin Jumpers Project – These are knitted jumpers for penguins who were caught in oil slicks around Tasmania and had to be cleaned. Over 15,000 jumpers were collected. Directions for making them are provided on the site. NOTE: the project is now finished.
http://www.tct.org.au/jumper.htm
Extremely Large Knitting Needles – Textile designer Ingrid Warner definitely thinks BIG – she is in training to break the current entry in the Guinness World Book of Records
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/extreme_knittin.php
Mathematicians Crochet Chaos – 25,511 crochet stitches were used to represent the Lorenz Chaos Theory equations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4099615.stm
Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold – images of other
models
http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/staff/hinke/crochet/
How to Crochet the Lorenz Manifold – pdf
instructions for making your own representation
of this chaos theory model
http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/preprints/2004r03.html
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef - The Institute For Figuring is crocheting a coral reef: a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
http://theiff.org/reef/index.html#
Knitted City – Artist Annette Streyl knits reproductions of famous German buildings based on the original plans.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2017787,00.html?maca=en-aa-cul-865-rdf
Visit her web site to see more of the buildings –
There is a link to the site's English version, then
click on the arrow in the lower right hand corner to
navigate through the site.
http://www.streyl.net/
Knitted Steel Wire - creations by artist Blanko Sperkova
http://eleveneleven.50webs.com/sperkova.html
Totally Knitted Wedding – I kid you not! – actually, I can’t figure out whether this wedding took place for real or not – I’m leaning toward it being an actual event in 2005 that was sponsored by the Cast Off organization.
Wedding Cake
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding2/pages/wedding50.htm
Bride
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding/pages/DSC_0254.htm
Bridesmaids
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding/pages/DSC_0629.htm
Bride’s Train
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding/pages/DSC_0314.htm
Procession
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding/pages/DSC_0270.htm
Champagne
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding2/pages/wedding01.htm
Refreshments
http://www.castoff.info/album/wedding2/pages/wedding02.htm
Additional pictures can be viewed in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2
Not For the Faint Of Heart: Textile artist Patricia Waller - WARNING – these are downright gruesome!
Salome - plate 16 in., length sword 25 inch
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/salome.jpg
Butterfly
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/butterfly.jpg
Man-eating Tiger
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/safari-unfall.jpg
Man-eating Shark
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/haifischblau.jpg
Man-eating Crocodile
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/crocodile.jpg
Bicycle Accident - View #1 and View #2
Cat Meets Car, Car Wins
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/cat.jpg
Murdered Doll
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/doll.jpg
Murdered Teddy Bear
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/teddy.jpg
Murdered Rubber Duck
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/duck.jpg
Unfortunate Dog
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/badluck.jpg
Revenge of the Carrot
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/rabbit3_freigruen.jpg
Not so Friendly Unicorn
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images/unicorn.jpg
2 comments:
Okay, I finally have one for you Gwen, have you seen the knitted dissected frog?
http://extremecraft.typepad.com/extreme_craft/2008/01/dissectual-heal.html
Fantastic Pam! I totally missed that posting on Extreme Craft. This is too cool - just wish I had one to use wa-a-y back in high school when we had to dissect the real thing - yuk. I think nowadays though, students can opt to to do a virtual dissection.
Gwen
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