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August 10, 2006
Jenny McHardy - Intimidating Knitting Protects from Emotional Harm
There is a feature in this month's Knitting magazine about Scottish textile artist and knitwear designer Jennifer McHardy. It took me a while to track her down, but I found this page on the CraftScotland website.
Jenny's work is currently all about garments intended to intimidate - from CraftScotland:
She says “I combine these elements together to produce garments which look visually intimidating/ threatening and convey a strong sense of danger, in order to protect/conceal inner weakness/softness.”
Her collection of garments and textiles all work together to protect the wearer from physical harm but it’s the emotional side of protection which she considers to be the most important element to their design. Some garments contain hidden meanings with ‘you make me go weak at the knees’ sewn inside and swear words on the outside.
I love this kind of conceptual design - backed by strong research, and playing around with ideas which some may find difficult or challenging. Whatever you think, her work cannot be ignored and is, I think, very much of the leftfield knitting zeitgeist right now. Have a look at the website and decide for yourself.
Posted by glittrgirl at August 10, 2006 01:56 PM
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Did you see the BB Pete lookalike wearing handwarmers on that page?
Posted by: purlpower at August 12, 2006 04:33 AM
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