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Crocheted Venus of WillendorfThe Venus of Willendorf is the name that archaeologists have given to a nude sculpture discovered in a village in eastern Austria in 1908. It was carved about 25,000-30,000 years ago and is thus one of the oldest representations of the human form. It was likely a fertility goddess or a object used in fertility rituals by the community that created it.Redditor /u/tabloach suspects that, after all the millennia, the sculpture is now in the public domain and available for her to duplicate. Her chosen craft is crocheted yarn, which will be a bit less durable than the oolite of the original.#VenusOfWillendorf #crochet

 

The Astonishingly Tiny and Precise Micro-Crochet Works of Lucia DolgopolovaLucia Dolgopolova, an artist in Russia, has become a master of a unique fabric craft: micro-crochet. She talked to Bored Panda about her work. Dolgopolova says that she started on this path to tininess when she experimented with 0.35 mm sewing thread and made a bear that was 4.4 mm across. She continued on to see how small she could go. She’s gone as far as an owl that is only 1 mm across.Not all of her works are quite that small, such as this duck. Some are over a centimeter wide. But in her larger works, the tiny loops allow her to add vibrant, realistic forms to almost microscopic fabric creatures. You can see more on her Instagram page, buy her items at Etsy, or watch videos of her work on YouTube.-via Nag on the Lake#LuciaDolgopolova #crochet