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  • (H)armless

    harmless

    1997
    machine knitted yarn (mixed fibres), rubber glove,
recycled sweater sleeves

    Photography: Douglas Atfield

    17 June 1997

  • Tree Cosies

    treecosies1

    treecosybranch

    treecosiemohair

    1997
    machine and hand knitted yarn, buttons

    Site specific installation for “The garden pARTy” 
(Feeringbury VII), Feeringbury Manor, Colchester, Essex. 

    Hand knitted cosies by Molly Robins.

    GARDEN PARTY

    TEA PARTY

    TEA COSY

    TREE COSY

    17 June 1997

  • Hand of Good, Hand of God

    Hand of Good, Hand of God

    1997
    machine knitted wool 960 × 520 mm
    In the collection of the Crafts Council, London.

    Hand of Good, Hand of God is one of my earliest pieces. It followed on from my series of Odd Gloves. It plays with mathematics and pattern writing. The large glove being a multiplication of the number of stitches and rows in a regular knitted glove, the smaller being a division. The large glove is 3 1/2 larger than a regular glove, the smaller is 1/4 smaller. I have made this piece as large as I could without having to seam pieces together. My aim is to make a much bigger piece (possibly to be called A Bigger and Better God) with more “layers” of gloves. This could either be done by seaming pieces together or by the use of large, industrial machinery, which I have begun to use in the production of my large-scale work, Anyway 2002.

    40:40 – forty objects for forty years

    Online exhibition celebrating forty years of the Crafts Council Collection featuring Hand of Good, Hand of God
    http://onviewonline.craftscouncil.org.uk/4040/object/T165









    Photography: Heini Schneebeli, courtesy of Crafts Council

    17 June 1997

  • Odd Gloves

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    michael

    edwin

    david

    Odd Gloves – Giles, Polly, Conrad, Peggy, 1997
    machine knitted wool, mohair
    approx 240 × 160 mm
    Giles, Polly and Conrad in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Peggy in Private Collection

    Odd Gloves – Michael, Edwin, David
, 1998
    machine knitted wool, machine knitted shirring elastic 

    100 × 100 mm, 140 × 410 mm, 300 × 260 mm

    David in Private collection

    Pattern to hand-knit Conrad gloves, from Victoria & Albert Museum website

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/k/knit-a-work-of-art-from-a-free-pattern/

    17 June 1997

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