I was walking eastward on Delancey Street the other afternoon and came across this!  I don’t know much about it, but I do know that it’s an example of the growing use of textiles in street art.

And of course, you’ve heard of yearn bombing?  If you take a stroll through the Lower East Side or Williamsburg, and look closely, you’re sure to see bike racks (and bicycles), sign posts, mail boxes, and in some cases, even statues covered in knit yarn.  This practice, popularized in part due to artists like Jessie Hemmons, Olek, and Knitta, is slowly making it’s way about the streets of NYC as well as other metropolitan areas around the US and Europe as a fresh and less destructive, and as put by Hemmons, “more feminine” form of street art.  Yarn bombing also represents a resurgance of handicrafts in the art world, and the DIY aesthetic that is taking hold all over New York.