Crocheted Paper Garments

With long and slow man­ual work, with­out using scis­sors, glue or col­ors, Ivano Vitali twists strips of torn newsprint tightly, mak­ing very long threads, and then winds them into giant balls of yarn. With giant knit­ting nee­dles, a vari­ety of cro­chet hooks and a ver­ti­cal loom that he built him­self using nat­ural, non-treated wood, he weaves large tapes­tries and wear­able art, each work bear­ing the col­ors and text of the newsprint pages used to make the yarn.

Equally sculp­tor and per­for­mance artist, all of this is done involv­ing the peo­ple who are present at his exhi­bi­tions. What an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence that must be!