Knit the City is a group of "graffiti knitting and crochet" street artists founded in London, England in 2009. The collective is credited with being the first to go beyond the simple 'cosies' of early graffiti knitting to tell 'stitched stories', using knitted and crochet amigurumi creatures and objects in their public installations.[1] This practice has been taken up by groups internationally.
The title Knit the City: A Whodunnknit Set in London[1] by Deadly Knitshade was published in German by [Hoffmann Und Campe] in February 2011, and in the UK by Summersdale in September 2011. The book covers the group's history and showcases examples of their street art.
The street art has been called "knit graffiti" and yarn bombing or "yarnstorming".
The group's aim is "to guerilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the world, and bring the art of the sneaky stitch to a world without wool".[2]
Knit the City was founded by Lauren O'Farrell (under the pseudonym Deadly Knitshade) in February 2009[3] with six members.[4] The 'Yarn Corps' grew to seven members with the addition of The Fastener in late 2009. In October 2010 two members left the group and one became inactive, leaving the group with four active members. The group continued to graffiti knit as a foursome of Deadly Knitshade, The Fastener, Shorn-a the Dead and Lady Loop.[1]
^ abcKnitshade, Deadly (2011). Knit the City: A Whodunnknit Set in London. Summersdale. p. 128. ISBN 9781849531795.
^"Knit the City: What". April 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
^Costa, Maddy (11 October 2010). "The graffiti knitting epidemic". The Guardian. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
^"Storming London: Knit the City". Yarnbombing.com. 25 August 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
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