Thursday, May 2, 2013

California library images inspire knitted cap in Berlin

Man wearing white-on-gray knitted snowflake pattern hat
Image credit: Calimaq Silex on Wordpress.com
At Yarn Bombing @ Your Library, Honorio Penadés shares the link to a fascinating read by Calimaq Silex about the use of public domain images in serendipitous, artistic ways that bridge a global community: “By the grace of digital, so that’s how snowflakes illustrating a book of 1863 digitized by a library in California found themselves on an Open Source cap made in Berlin with a knitting machine hacked!” (as translated by my web browser from the original French). Could a library’s public source image inspire your next yarn bombing art?

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