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Thomas 🧸 (schreiblehrling@bonn.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 20:40:14 UTC Thomas 🧸
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- Bernie
@codewiz It’s „yarn bombing“ (EN) or „Guerilla Knitting“ (DE). And I think it’s lovely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing?wprov=sfti1
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1. Yarn bombing
  
  Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called wool bombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting, or graffiti knitting. Motivation While other forms of graffiti may be expressive, decorative, territorial, socio-political commentary, advertising or vandalism, 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.According to Manuela Farinosi and Leopoldina Fortunati, yarn bombing has become synonymous with the current feminist movement due in part to the reclamation of the traditionally feminine arts of knitting and/or crocheting to partake in the traditionally masculine and male-dominated graffiti scene. The women and girls who make up the yarn bombing subculture are diverse in...
Thomas 🧸 (schreiblehrling@bonn.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Apr-2022 22:38:33 UTC Thomas 🧸
- Bernie
@codewiz „But I want my photos and videos with me“ is an argument I heard, and let me add an „plus, I‘m too lazy to upload and organize the data elsewhere“. So my guess is: laziness/convenience.

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