Guerrilla knitting, or yarn bombing as it’s sometimes called, has been gaining a lot of popularity recently. Here’s a new twist that I haven’t seen anyone do before: Juliana Santacruz Herrera took to the streets of Paris to “repair” potholes by filling them with colorful crocheted fabric. (I’m not an expert on the art of crocheting/knitting, so if anyone could confirm whether or not this is in fact crochet I would appreciate it! I had a hard time finding much more information on this…)
Take a look at Juliana’s set on Flickr called projet nid de poule (Project Pothole) to see more.
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That does not look like crochet at all… It looks like some kinda material that was twisted up.
I think it *is* crochet– but instead of yarn I think she’s using bias strips or something. It is a crochet on very large fiber.
At first I thought it was a rug making technique, but whatever it is … I think it’s awesome!
I believe it is actually long strands of “finger knitting” or single crochet of fabric strips. This would then be easy to work into the cracks & potholes as needed. Nice.
As a street artist in chicago, I so totally want to make pothole art in chicago.
This is crochet. It’s the chain stitch that is done at the very beginning, Very clever way to do it, it looks like it’s done with strips of fabric, possibly t-shirt strips. At leasts without viewing the photos closer that’s my guess. Great find – and great job! I know some pot holes in Minneapolis that could use this!
I think these are just plaited strips of fabric rather than chain stitch. Whatever, they are amazing and a lot of work!!