Gang of knitters have Hong Kong street covered for Halloween with colourful ‘yarn bombing’ display
Esther Poon Suk-han and her band of ‘guerilla knitting’ artists have got Pottinger Street all wrapped up for next week’s spooky celebration
A Hong Kong artist has given the city’s historic Pottinger Street an unusual makeover for Halloween by covering its roadside structures with colourful “knitted graffiti”.
Esther Poon Suk-han has been knitting over railings, road signs, trees and fences in an effort to bring so-called guerilla knitting to the urban landscape.
The yarn bomber, as practitioners are commonly known, has been a keen knitter for 30 years but only began taking the art to the streets in 2012.
On Sunday, Poon and seven other guerilla knitters, some of whom were her students, wrapped railings on Pottinger Street in the downtown district of Central with crocheted fabric featuring eerie patterns and 12 Halloween-themed characters including a witch.
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She has previously carried out yarn bombing projects in Central, Causeway Bay and Sheung Wan during Christmas and Lunar New Year. Her last project was also on Pottinger Street where she dressed railings in festive patterns for Christmas.