Plastic bag yarn bombing, the next stage..

Sunday 9 November 2008

The washing and rinsing stage of found plastic bags, before they are shredded and turned into a yarn.

Posted by ArtYarn at 05:06

Labels: plastic bag

Red dot = location of found discarded plastic carrier bags on the streets of Liverpool city centre

Green dot = location of 'tags', knitted and recycled from the discarded carrier bags

ArtYarn: ArtYarn is a collaborative knitting and crochet project coordinated by visual artist Rachael Elwell. ArtYarn formed in 2008 and continue to collaborate with local community groups, world wide knitting and crochet networks and arts organisations to create gallery installations, public arts projects and creative craft workshops. ArtYarn are inspired by the versatility of knitting and crochet as an artistic media, as well as the traditional technical aspects of knitting and crochet. This supports the creation of highly crafted art works with a contemporary outcome. All ArtYarn projects reflect the artistic, social and historical contexts of knitting and crochet, and focus on the tactility of hand manipulated processes. With this, ArtYarn explore individual creative expression and focus projects on devising ways to make knitting and crochet accessible through participatory making.