Political protest turns to the radical art of knitting
Once a devalued craft, knitting is now taking on capitalism, consumerism and war.
Needles are flying: the guerrilla knitters are here.
An exhibition at the Crafts Council Gallery in London next month will show that knitting - long belittled as the preserve of elderly ladies declining towards senility - has become a politically engaged, radical artform.
One artist constructs intricate, two-metre-high knitted panels based on prostitutes' calling cards. Another knits balaclavas and photographs people wearing them around New York. There is even a group of activists that stages knit-ins on the London Underground, occupying a carriage and knitting around the Circle line.
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