Have you heard of the ‘Hyperbolic crochet?
This is an amazing, unique opportunity for the synergy of art and science.
What’s more, it is amazingly simple! 
Sounds complicated and mathematical?
Not at all, it is simple, creative and very satisfying.
Best of all, it uses up all your bits and pieces of wool or fibre and can incorporate anything you would like to crochet such as used audio tape, plastic bags or beach found fishing line! It can be felted, beaded, stuffed!
Crochet and the Hyperbolic:
For a long time people thought that hyperbolic space was just some mathematical abstraction. We now know that there are many things in nature that exhibit this geometry – lettuce leaves, kelp, and various kinds of sea creatures, especially sea slugs, flat worms, nudibranchs and of course coral.
In 1997, Dr Daina Taimina, a mathematician at Cornell University, made the first useable physical model of the hyperbolic – a feat many mathematicians had believed was impossible – using, of all things, crochet. What’s more, it looked like coral. From this first experiment, hyperbolic crochet morphed into an unexpected and far-reaching worldwide movement.
Seagardens Aotearoa is a unique New Zealand response to this idea.
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