Yarn bombing or yarnbombing is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk.
While other forms of graffiti may be expressive, decorative, territorial, socio-political commentary, advertising or vandalism, yarn bombing is almost exclusively about beautification and creativity.
from wikipedia
lots more examples at yarnbombing.com.
3 replies on “yarnbombing, from the streets of helsinki”
How cute! I love it – wish someone would bring that idea down here to NZ! :)
Not what I was expecting from the title of your tweet. This looks very colourful and an excellent way of decorating public space and keeping skills alive with knitting and crochet.
I even found a wiki about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
that’s really cool actually, I almost wish I could knit, don’t think they’d last 5 minutes in Shanghai though!