Leonardo Martines I

Leonardo Martines's wonderful textures experiments in weaving and crochet. 

Helen Elizabeth Nichols

 

'I Can No Longer Hold Your Body' emerges from a study of hand-lettering through filet crochet to code messages of care, solidarity, and connection with the working class. It responds to a design industry that continues to devalue artistic labor while encouraging competition over collective support. These works inhabit space as a counter-practice to conventional typographic norms, challenging the corporate drive to streamline, commodify, and dilute creative expression.

Approximately 15,500 squares and 150 hours of work make up the piece, and it measures to approx. 5ft x 5ft. Helen Elizabeth Nichols

Helen Nichols graduate show for  MDes Communication Design explored textile lettering.

My practice explores care, communication, and resistance through textiles and typography. Rooted in a lineage of skilled laborers, caregivers, and quiet advocates, I approach design as both a craft and a political act. I work with tactile materials like tufting, crochet, and fabric to reframe protest as soft, slow, and intimate.

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Alexandria Masse

 

Alexandria Masse is an incredible Canadian crochet textile artist, who decided to crochet her birth control information word for word. 

This is of course a massive undertaking, which she has been poetically carrying out whilst on her period. 

Club Dell’ Uncinetto

 

Crochet dance costumes by Club Dell’ Uncinetto an amateur group of women formed during the pandemic, the colours are inspired by Scandinavian colours and traditions. 

"Born as a studio intervention within the Milk Teeth exhibition at the Nitja Senter for samtidskunst “Come Neve” I wanted to translate a personal idea of well-being into dance.

The starting image is a snow falling outside the window when you are a child. The feeling of comfort that comes from the sense of protection and warmth inside, combined with the magic of contemplating the whiteness outside.

Before beginning the work on the bodies in movement, I identified the expressive quality of the creation in the costumes, involving a group of women in the project who gathered in a "Crochet Club" during the pandemic. This ancient art served as an opportunity not only for collaboration, comfort and connection for these women, but also as an opportunity for renaissance after a moment of deep darkness.

Perfectly embodying my sense of well-being. In this uncovering, comforting and confront each other.

I am very fascinated by this art that transforms a thread into a dress, if guided by the right hands.

It is said that crochet was born from the ability and imagination of a woman who, fascinated by the beauty and perfection of the snowflakes, decided to reproduce their wonder with a simple hooked needle and a cotton thread.

So do the dancers, craftsmen themselves; with their bodies and movement give life to something new, creative and original as a snowflake. Something unique and unrepeatable in its spontaneity.

Interweaving these elements and these suggestions, I wants the spectator to be invaded with a sudden snowfall of bodies in movement, causing time to pause in a state of serene contemplation. The idea is to compose as a crochet work: an intricate yet sophisticated plot, a conscious weaving that generates new forms. - Colours are inspired by Scandinavian flags:  and are the three primary colours plus white"  Bolognino Choreographer

Mulyana

 

'Masks and costumes are seminal expressions in many folkloric traditions and can signify important cultural moments: heroic acts, define religious celebrations, channel spirits, or provide entertainment. Masks in particular are a metaphor for the facades we construct to conceal the ‘true self’ from our neighbors. For Mulyana the impulse behind the Adikara and Nayanika costumed figure installations, are intended to represent the opposite—for him, these avatars more accurately embody his personality than the Mogus characters are able to achieve. These figurative tableaus speak to the universal struggle of becoming comfortable in one's own skin and resonate profoundly as we grapple with this unprecedented era of isolation and uncertainty.' Mulyana

Mulyana makes multi coloured costumes inspired by organic forms from crochet and knitting. These costumes are from his exhibition, 'Fragile Ecologies', features two life-size, hand-knit and crocheted costumes and a series of sumptuously knit coral islands.

            

Aldo Lanzini

Aldo Lanzini takes the craft of crochet out of its comfort zone and explodes it into extreme costume art and masks.
You can see a film about this artist and his work here: Aldo Lanzini