Issue 5 Gallery
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Welcome to the Granny Square Wreck Room
by Allyson Mitchell
Allyson is a terrific young artist. Check out her hilarious website
Allyson is a terrific young artist. Check out her hilarious website
Here are some artworks by Ming Yi Sung which some may find provocative. I love provocative!!
More at her website
Here are some artworks by Ming Yi Sung which some may find provocative. I love provocative!!
More at her website
Here are some artworks by Ming Yi Sung which some may find provocative. I love provocative!!
More at her website
Brains never looked this good! OK, it's knitted. Artist is Karen Norberg and it's from neuroscienceart.com, which bills itself as "the world's largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art."
Fine artist Matthew Cox's embroidery on X-ray , entitled "Recovery: Knee."
Recent work by the talented Mitsuko Tonouchi
Recent work by the talented Mitsuko Tonouchi
Recent work by the talented Mitsuko Tonouchi
Stunning crochet lace by Kazekobo, one of Japan's leading knit and crochetwear designers. Browse her website to see more of her work.
I went to my LYS, Knitty City, to browse. Pearl Chin, the owner, and I were chatting when she said, “You must meet this Japanese designer who was here and left her book,” handing me Crochet Lace, published by the famed Keito Dama imprint. Pearl put me in touch with its author, Yoko Hatta, who publishes under the name Kazekobo, which means “wind studio.” The following day Yoko arrived at my apartment,dressed casually all in black, petite, friendly, fluent in English, and probably wondering what I had in mind. I confessed my obsession with Japanese publications -- books magazines, stitch dictionaries, and anything I could get my budget around -- and showed her my collection. She pointed out her designs in this one and that one and then another, each one an object d’art. The text in these books being entirely Japanese, I’ve never know the name of a single designer. But it was dawning on me that sitting right on my little couch was one of the leading lights of the industry!
Yoko gave me a copy of her most recent book Crochet Lace, filled with gorgeous designs derived from Irish Crochet, each piece impeccably crafted and beautifully balanced between tradition and contemporary stye. I peppered her with questions about how the business works in Japan and ranted rather shamefully about the frustrations and iniquities of the American scene. When I mentioned my struggle to increase my design output to twenty-five designs a year, Yoko chuckled and said hers was a large multiple of that number -- ouch! “You have to do that many to make a living at it,” she told me. She works with contract knitters to whom she devotes a year of training, insuring they understand her work and methods. When I asked about the outlets for that many designs, she explained that Japanese yarn companies put out 150 leaflets annually, in addition to Keito Dama’s many magazines and books. She designs for many of them. She gave me an amazing glimpse into the world of top level designing, and my admiration grew in proportion to a new understanding of the multiple levels of talent and skill it takes
I went to my LYS, Knitty City, to browse. Pearl Chin, the owner, and I were chatting when she said, “You must meet this Japanese designer who was here and left her book,” handing me Crochet Lace, published by the famed Keito Dama imprint. Pearl put me in touch with its author, Yoko Hatta, who publishes under the name Kazekobo, which means “wind studio.” The following day Yoko arrived at my apartment,dressed casually all in black, petite, friendly, fluent in English, and probably wondering what I had in mind. I confessed my obsession with Japanese publications -- books magazines, stitch dictionaries, and anything I could get my budget around -- and showed her my collection. She pointed out her designs in this one and that one and then another, each one an object d’art. The text in these books being entirely Japanese, I’ve never know the name of a single designer. But it was dawning on me that sitting right on my little couch was one of the leading lights of the industry!
Yoko gave me a copy of her most recent book Crochet Lace, filled with gorgeous designs derived from Irish Crochet, each piece impeccably crafted and beautifully balanced between tradition and contemporary stye. I peppered her with questions about how the business works in Japan and ranted rather shamefully about the frustrations and iniquities of the American scene. When I mentioned my struggle to increase my design output to twenty-five designs a year, Yoko chuckled and said hers was a large multiple of that number -- ouch! “You have to do that many to make a living at it,” she told me. She works with contract knitters to whom she devotes a year of training, insuring they understand her work and methods. When I asked about the outlets for that many designs, she explained that Japanese yarn companies put out 150 leaflets annually, in addition to Keito Dama’s many magazines and books. She designs for many of them. She gave me an amazing glimpse into the world of top level designing, and my admiration grew in proportion to a new understanding of the multiple levels of talent and skill it takes
