At a public place called Deák Téri we came across a photography exhibition trying to advertise the Hungarian army, but what suddenly caught my eye much more was a big and beautiful yarn bombing in between the pictures of war. What a perfect place for demonstrating love and warmth! Small stripes dated this knit graffiti to 2012 and it looked indeed quite new.
My attention was drawn so much at this knitting that I first overlooked a second one right in the middle of the square. Following an interesting elderly lady with my eyes who inspected the knitting for quite a while and then walked to the second one (on the left side on the picture below), I discovered it. It had wonderful soft parts and lovely flowers.
After making pictures of that one, I turned around and discovered a next one right away. The most creative one as I have seen so far.
But there was even more to come! A fourth one surprised me as soon as I was finished with taking pictures of the others.
And as we left the square I came across another, smaller one. Not comparable with the other bombings at all, but still charming because of its beautiful simplicity.What a happy welcome to this city! At that time I already felt very comfortable with planning to leave one of my own knittings illusion in this city as well.
A google search about these knittings brought information about the guerilla knitters responsible for this amazing work very quickly: A blog called vadjutka documents the process of tagging this place and states their "enthuisiasm to make our city lovelier and nicer". :-)
varrodoboz and urbanista, two other blogs, also write about this yarn bombing, but unfortunately only in Hungarian.
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