Yarn Took Over (8 Photos)

When yarn bombing takes over the street

A car gets a crocheted cover, a tree wears stripes, fountain figures get new outfits, and a concrete bollard becomes R2-D2. These eight examples of knitting and crochet take yarn far beyond the sweater drawer.

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🚗 Crocheted Beetle — By Olek in New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Olek covered this Volkswagen Beetle in crochet, right down to its wheels. The car stood on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan in 2010.

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🌳 Die Trauerweide — By Ute Lennartz-Lembeck in Velbert, Germany 🇩🇪

The knitting follows the trunk and spreads into the branches of this willow. Ute Lennartz-Lembeck documented Die Trauerweide from May 2011 to September 2013.

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🤖 R2-D2 Bollard — By Sarah Rudder in Bellingham, Washington, USA 🇺🇸

Sarah Rudder knitted a fitted R2-D2 cover for a concrete bollard in 2012. Her project account says it took about 1,200 yards of yarn; she removed it when she left that day.

More: More views of Sarah Rudder’s knitted R2-D2

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🚲 Crocheted Bicycle — By Olek in Brooklyn, New York City, USA 🇺🇸

The wheels, frame and saddle all get a crocheted covering on this Olek bicycle. It was photographed near the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian entrance in DUMBO in 2011.

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🐂 Project B — By Olek in New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Olek wrapped Arturo Di Modica’s Charging Bull at Bowling Green in crochet on Christmas night 2010. CNN reported that the cover was torn off early the next morning. In a contemporary interview, the artist said installing the cover took four hours.

💡 History Fact: The bull itself began as an unauthorized installation. Di Modica paid about $360,000 to make it and unloaded it at night in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989; after it was removed, it was moved to Bowling Green.

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🧶 Striped Bicycle Rack — By Streetcolor in Orinda, California, USA 🇺🇸

Streetcolor wrapped the four-loop bicycle rack outside Orinda Public Library in striped knitting in May 2011. In the artist’s account, Betsy helped sew the pieces into place.

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⛲ Dressed-Up Fountain — By Soso of Collectif France Tricot in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Soso of Collectif France Tricot dressed the figures of a Wallace fountain in yarn outfits. The photograph was taken at Place Saint-Sulpice during La Nuit du StreetArt in May 2009.

💡 History Fact: Paris got its first Wallace fountains in 1872, after the British philanthropist Richard Wallace gave the city 50 drinking fountains following the water shortages of the 1871 siege and Commune. According to the City of Paris, sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg’s four caryatids stand for Simplicity, Kindness, Sobriety and Charity.

📷 Photo by Denis / tofz4u

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🐾 Sweaters for the Sculptures — Trutnov, Czechia 🇨🇿

Irena Janigová, Karolína Dvořáčková, Zdeňka Prouzová and Lucie Pangrácová crocheted outfits for Michal Gabriel’s bronze felines outside UFFO in Trutnov. The sweaters went on in December 2011.

💡 Place Fact: Michal Gabriel’s set of seven predators, titled Smečka (Pack), was bought by the Trutnov gallery and unveiled outside UFFO in September 2010, when the new cultural center opened. The building is named after Uffo Horn, a 19th-century Trutnov native active in culture and politics.

More: The crocheted sculptures in Trutnov

📷 Photo: Trutnovinky