When you walk on the streets of Sydney, Melbourne, or other Australian cities, do you occasionally run into a tree or pole in "clothes"?
Maybe you think it's cute, of course, you might think, who's bored enough to knit a sweater for a wire pole.
Until recently, Xiao Shuai didn't know that there were so many stories behind these colorful "sweaters" that we didn't know.
These two days, a post-90s mother touched countless netizens on Weibo. As a first-time mother, the post-90s sister unfortunately suffered from postpartum depression. The pain of childbirth, the suffering of complications, kept the young mother alive every day in anxiety and pain.
However, her way of resisting all this is very special. Deep in postpartum depression, she, without saying anything, has been knitting sweaters with her head bowed.
Half a year passed unwittingly, and the railings of the whole street at the door were dressed in her sweate
When she saw the passers-by see the surprise of the sweaters, she seemed relieved.
Weave pain into a rainbow, heal yourself in beauty
Reading this news, it is very natural to think of the "color sweater" that occasionally appears on the streets of Australia, a deep scrape, the original is not so simple!
Yarn Bombing: redefined Wool Ball
These street wool, in fact, has its own special name: "Yarn Bombing."
This will take track back until the winter of 2005. A 37-year-old mother in Houston, USA, weaves a colored sweater for the doorknob. This way in and out of the customer do not need to be frozen by the cold iron handle shivering.
Unexpectedly, this small act of kindness, not only let customers feel warm, but also inspired weaving enthusiasts! As soon as the brain opened, it was out of control.
That winter, Houston, everywhere cold, was put on a sweater.
Parking ticket machine isolation baluste
Big iron gate
Under the wonder of knitting enthusiasts, these were put on sweater poles, isolation piers, iron doors, instantly become street art! Originally a dark winter, but also because of these colorful full of childlike sweaters, become lovely.
Everyone could not help laughing at the lovely decorations in the streets.
Because this art form, which can be removed at any time without causing any damage, is more environmentally friendly and more popular than street graffiti. The wave of sweater knitting quickly spread from Houston to the big cities and villages of the United States, to Europe and to Australia in the Southern Hemisphere.
The colorful wool ball turned into the most In work of art.
At first, knitting enthusiasts around the world regarded "Yarn Bomb" as a street art creation. Until later psychologists discovered that knitting sweaters actually had a magical effect!
Knit sweaters: make your mind healthier and happie
Braiding wool and meditation have similar functions, according to brain nerve research by (Cardiff University) of Cardiff University in the UK, which stimulates the brain to produce a sense of calm, improves brain control and improves emotional regions.
In short, as you knit a sweater, your bad mood will slowly be dispelled and your inner peace will be found.
Not only that, knitting wool also helps repair the brain's nerves, allowing the damaged brain to accelerate the development of new neural pathways.
What's even more surprising is that knitting wool can really be used to heal depression.
As a result, when the Yarn Bomb passed to Australia, wool ball has a more special mission.
Australia, saving people with a little wool ball
In fact, there is not much cold winter in Australia, but there are many people in the spirit of life in the harsh winter. The first to emulate the American Yarn Bombing was a group of lovely old ladies.
When there's time for craftsmanship, why don't you come and create surprises?
They gathered and pulled the extra wool balls out of the house, weaving all kinds of lovely designs, encased in community sculptures, fences, electric poles, and trunks. Such Yarn Bomb societies are found in all Australian cities.
They tried to weave it so that people in the city could go out every day with one more smile.
Sydney's Lane Cove has such a mother, her weaving works more attentively. She would share her most inspiring words with passers-by in this lovely way.
To give the original cold guardrail temperature
The mother said she just wanted to surprise and have fun for passers-by. She wanted to remind people that the world was full of ideas and goodwill. She would like to use her wool works to tell everyone, even in the noisy, full of advertising streets, even in their annoyance of the crowd, there will be someone silently care for you, support you!
When these lovely knitting enthusiasts learned that "knitting sweaters can help people with depression", they decided to give more value to these little goodwill and ingenuity.
Knitting enthusiasts have partnered with depression aid agencies to set up numerous knitting clubs in Australia. These clubs focus on one thing: teach unhappy people to weave yarn and weave cloudy days into rainbows.
Many depression patients, deep in pain can not help themselves, often because they do not want to open their hearts to express bitterness. At braiding clubs, people with depression don't have to recall painful things, or even say so!
All they need to do is focus on these colored wool balls and knit them into colorful patterns.
In the process of weaving, they will feel unprecedented relaxation and calm. In fact, their negative emotions are slowly dispelling with this needle.
There are more and more weaving clubs in Australia. Sydney's Glebe,Surry Hill,Ultimo,Lane Cove,Bankstown and so on, large and small. These clubs are free, barrier-free and zealous knitting enthusiasts volunteer for those in need of help in their spare time.
As long as you can get happiness from it is the greatest benefit of these volunteers.
From time to time they will display these wool works in the streets of the city, creating a lot of small surprises for everyone's flat life. CBD Park trees, Newtown electric poles, Bondi fence, do not know when will come out! Then, a few days later, they disappeared again.
Sometimes you have to admire the ingenuity of these authors, so little wool balls can change such an endless landscape.
What's more, you can't imagine that these vivid and playful works were created by a group of depressed people.
They knit the gloom of life into colour.
Then the stranger's rain and rain, turned into thousands of miles of clear sky.
Learning to knit sweaters is not easy for some people, and the years of depression may be difficult to break up. The process can be long, difficult, a month, a year, or even a few years.
But when they entered the weaving club, their lives began to reverse.
In addition to helping people with depression, Australian knitting enthusiasts are also trying to call attention to depression. At this time last year, Sydney's Knitting Club, together with the Beyond Blue (Depression Relief Society, organized a 24-hour braiding relay.
The volunteers worked hard to weave thousands of butterflies.
These symbols of love and depression of butterflies free to passers-by, more butterfly, society more care, less cold.
I have to admire these lovely knitting lovers, their kind heart, than these wool art, more beautiful intoxicating.
Weave winter into spring.
In addition to weaving for artistic creation, they also weave for all kinds of people in deep trouble.
They knit blankets for homeless people against the cold.
For those who suffer from natural disaster, trapped in the cold and dark, knit clothes, shoes and hats.
Hand-knit clothes for sick children suffering from illness.
Where warmth is needed, they send these hand-woven materials wherever they need them.
Despite its meagre strength, the well-being of these hand-woven blankets is enough to give them real comfort in their sufferings.
Among them was the lonely old man in the, live a retired life compound.
There are also autistic children standing outside society.
They are the group most in need of help.
At the moment, I am trying to help others.
In a few days, Yarn Bombing's wool may appear on the streets of Sydney. When you know these stories and see these lovely pieces of wool on the streets, you must feel the power they are trying to convey:
These are full of fantastical wool, behind is a group of hard-working people ah!
Life once brought them suffering, but they weave the cloudy day into a rainbow to illuminate every day of strangers. And why don't we take life seriously?
The original, simple wool, can weave such a rich and colorful spiritual world!