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Italy’s Ivano Vitali is a sculptor, ecologist and performance artist whose work is a nod to a time when manual labor was appreciated and celebrated. He rolls and twists newspaper pages – piecing them together with no glue or water – then knits, crochets and weaves dresses, suits, hats, shawls, abstract objects and tape-estries with the paper yarn that still bears the colors and text of the newsprint pages.
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I can’t knit. I’m left handed. Really left handed, which makes knitting difficult – not impossible, but difficult. For more than two decades I’ve been looking for someone who can teach a southpaw. Althea Crome says she loves a challenge – maybe she’s the right person for the job. The Indiana mother of four is an extreme knitter, specializing in micro-knitted garments – she must have the patience of a saint to knit these tiny, intricate sweaters, coats, gloves and socks.
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