Knitting a Brain
Most of you know of my love for knitting, spinning, weaving, dyeing — all of the fiber arts. Well, I finally have something I can legitimately share with you on this blog.
A researcher, Dr Karen Norberg from the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, decided to knit an anatomically correct brain. She says that unlike clay or metal, the development of the brain through the knit stitches mirrored the growth of a human brain.
Check out the Museum of Fabric Brain Art. And this article in Scientific American.
Dr Norberg used different colours to represent parts of the notoriously complex organ : Barcroft Media