Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art using knitted yarn rather than paint, such as the dressing of statues in woolly hats and scarves or hanging pompoms in trees.

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Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art or graffiti using items made from yarn - whether knitted, crocheted, or made into pom-poms.

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Because of that delay, there is something doughy and whimsical about the proceedings, as if we were present at the spinning of a yarn.

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Since yarn does not damage property in the same way spray paint might, yarn bombers see their art as a way of reclaiming and beautifying public spaces.

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Anyone can join in the regular Victoriana-inspired Chaos Thaoghaire nights, as long as you can stand in front of a crowd and spin a yarn that is vaguely rooted in reality - and do so without notes.

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The yarns were made by pulling sheets of nanotubes from "forests" of the tubes and twisting them to form a coiled structure - much as yarn is made from wool.

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Tellingly, it begins with the image of a sickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.

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