During my excellent weekend visit to New York, I came across this bike covered in knots. Knotting, Macrame, knitting or crochet …who cares, a bit of fun.
Great post Johnny - what a find! Were you able to find out who tied it all?
SR
This type of slightly irony-tinged textile graffiti is a bit of a movement, actually:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitta_Please
More photos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Knitted_graffiti
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=knitta&s=int
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=yarnbombing&s=int
That would be me. 8) Pretty distinctively crochet. OK, I’m good now. 8)
I saw the mate to that bike under the Brooklyn Bridge when I was in NYC last week.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/05/filmmaker_plans_for_yarn_graff.html
A documentary to be about yarn graphitti with a video trailer and informational website
Wow… that’s all I really have to say… wow
And today a NYT article, “Graffiti’s Cozy, Feminine Side”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/fashion/creating-graffiti-with-yarn.html?hp
I thought the photo deserves a place on this site:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/19/fashion/Z-YARN-P1-2/Z-YARN-P1-2-articleLarge.jpg
So who’s going to take up knot bombing? I want to see a photo of a street light with a turks head running up it, now that would be clever.
That would require Stormdrane, a few six-packs, and a few spools.
I did my own Knot Bombing a little while ago.
Near me there is a house and hanging by the porch is a bunch of antique keys on a large ring. So I decided to make a rope key fob, then very early one morning I attached it to the ring.
This was a few weeks ago and it is still there, so I assume that the owner likes it. I will get a photo when I next go past.
Two people could French Hitch a post or pole fairly quickly.
terry
You know I bet I could get away with some knot work in broad daylight in the middle of town. Yes I would get people looking and asking questions, but I don’t think anyone would call the cops for a bit of rope work.
You would probably gather a crowd of people, it would end up being a workshop!!
A magnificent example of knot bombing, only not really. 
via.
I have been wanting to tie knots on the lamp posts around a knot meeting for ages, like for one of our AGM’s but the only time I could I was so busy with organizing the meeting that I never got around to doing it.
Always a next meeting to dream about.