>From Wikipedia Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk....Yarn bombing was initially almost exclusively about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places. It has since developed with groups graffiti knitting and crocheting worldwide, each with their own agendas and public graffiti knitting projects being run. You should really google "yarn bombing" for images. Yarn bombing sounds as though something is covered with yarn, but in fact, the examples are, for instance, a tank covered with what looks like an afghan, or pipes covered with what looks like a custom knitted pipe warmer, even a bus covered with a tight form fitting knitted bus cover. I have never really understood how a group of women can descend on a public sculpture, or vehicle and cover it in such a labor intensive bit of knitting or crocheting, quickly. Do they surreptitiously take measurements ahead of time, avoiding police surveillance, so that they can arrive with the knitted garment which would only then require a few connecting stitches to place it before the authorities come? (It is technically illegal like graffiti, although not often prosecuted.) Has anyone on the list ever participated in a yarn bombing? How does it work? Lace content: I propose that the lace equivalent be "Guerilla Veiling". Devon
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