The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life. Installation view of ‘Crochet ...

The Crochet Coral Reef Project" is a traveling art exhibition that recreates the beauty of the ocean's coral reefs using crochet. Coral reefs are under threat due to climate change, so a group of ...

What is the coral reef project about, exactly? We wanted to do something that would also draw attention to the plight of coral reefs around the world, which are being devastated by global warming and ...

The monumental, 2,000-square-foot hand-crocheted project replicates the world’s coral reefs in an effort to save them. Presented by the Institute for Figuring.

Groups of crochet enthusiasts—both students and Santa Cruz community members—have been meeting for student-led crochet circles. By following a surprisingly basic algorithm, but also varying and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host a unique exhibition, the “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics and art. By ...

When Margaret Wertheim makes hyperbolic geometry figures and combines them to create coral reef sculptures. Her medium? Yarn. Wertheim and her twin sister Christine created Crochet Coral Reef, “a ...

All hail the Pussy Hat, the charming, knitted-or-crocheted pink cap, designed to raise awareness of women’s rights. It’s hard to point to anything that has so captured the global imagination and sung ...