Magda Sayeg

Magda Sayeg

Magda Sayeg is considered to be the mother of Yarn bombing, which is also known as urban knitting, but actually she’s a textile artist in Austin, Texas.

One day she wrapped the door handle of her store because she thought that it looks boring and she wanted to make it more colourful. People passed by, stopped because it was something new and they liked it. So this was the birth of urban knitting.  

Crochet covered bus in Mexico

Covered parking meters

Magda describes her work that way: „My passion is with the material: I love displacing handmade, mostly knitted, material in environments where it seemingly doesn’t belong… only to discover that they can coexist quite harmoniously. The exploration of environmental change drives me: provoking the world to be a more challenging, unconventional, and interesting place."

Route Master Double Decker bus in London

                               

Nowadays she’s a member of the group Knitta Please (short form: Knitta). With the help of them, the highlights of her early work include the knitting covered bus in Mexico City, as well as a solo exhibition in Rome at “La Museo des esposizione”, where she explored the usage of lighting with knitted material.

Today she’s doing leading community-based projects like covering parking meters or she’s working on commissions around the world with brands like 7UP, Gap or Mini Cooper.

Knitted Gun in Sweden