Knitting and crocheting are not only fun and relaxing crafts, but they also may be functional or veer into the artistic realm. A group of 20 knitters from Lancaster Yarn Shop's Thursday Night Knitting ...

This is a hyperbolic pseudosphere—made with nothing more than yarn and a crochet hook. Hyperbolic geometry describes surfaces that are negatively curved. If you're enjoying this article, consider ...

Coral reefs can be crocheted. The atmosphere can be knit. And a stop sign can be folded into a pair of pants. Welcome to the intersection of math and handicraft. Unexpectedly, handicraft in general, ...

The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" exhibit is now on view in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall. Eric Long, SI The Natural History Museum's Baird Auditorium showcases scientists and performers from ...

Margaret Wertheim gave a talk for the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute at their 2016 annual Summer School. We have built a world of largely straight lines – the houses we live in, the ...

A creative way of representing a mathematical principal has led to the creation of some crafty corals. WHAT DO YOU GET when you combine maths and environmentalism and a bit of crocheting? A coral reef ...

When Margaret Wertheim makes hyperbolic geometry figures and combines them to create coral reef sculptures. Her medium? Yarn. Wertheim and her twin sister Christine created Crochet Coral Reef, “a ...

Room 4270 – SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 149 W. Hastings St. On International Yarn Bombing Day, join fiber artist Heather Cameron and Mermaid Spring for a public design workshop exploring the ...

Curlicues of multicolored yarn spill over a crocheted disc that looks a lot like coral or a sea anemone, over which a little pink lobster lurks. It’s just a small section of The Asheville Reef, part ...

Australian twins Margaret and Christine Wertheim have used incredible crochet techniques to put the fate of coral reefs in the public eye and more than a million have queued up to see it THE NEW ...