Ett friskt korallrev

Jaha, så har lilla jag varit ute och vimsat i den stora världen. Skönt att vara hemma igen, det är ju inte utan att man saknar sitt lilla zoo när man inte ser dem på en vecka eller så.

I Washington DC, på Naturhistoriska museet, finns världens friskaste korallrev :-))))))
Den stora korallen bestod av 40 000 olika virkade delar; koraller, anemoner och sjöstjärnor, you name it. Det var 800 virkerskor (virkare?) inblandade i projektet, som började i april i 2010 och det blev klart i typ september och oktober.








Sedan fanns det en del maneter och andra sjöodjur i montrar runt omkring. Åh, det är så skönt att känna att man är inte ensam med sitt garn-nörderi. Det finns även andra människor som vill bli en del av en virkad jättekorall!





In English
Eight hundred women, from age 3 to 101, joined forces to crochet thousands of multicolored corals, anemones and starfish which are currently on display in an exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC. The project, called Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, was initiated by Australian activists Margaret and Christine Wertheim in an effort to bring attention to the alarming plight of these sea forms. Many corals, especially the most colorful ones found in tropical waters, are slowly becoming extinct due to overfishing and pollution. In fact, it is estimated that 1 in 5 corals have been destroyed over the past 20 years. The Wertheims, twin sisters raised in Queensland in Australia, came up with the idea to recreate the Great Barrier Reef in 2005 after reading about the work of Daina Taimina, a Latvian-born mathematician at Cornell University who, in 1997, discovered how to form three-dimensional models of hyperbolic geometry using crochet. The three women would later meet when Taimina was invited to speak at the Wertheims’ organization called the Institute for Figuring. The project soon grew to mammoth proportions as it traveled all over the globe and crocheters volunteered their time to stitch up replicas of the many corals, anemones, kelps, sponges, nudibranches, flatworms and slugs that live in the reef. Today, the fascinating hyperbolic geometry and wide variety of vibrant colors found in the coral display make this exhibit “a must see” event.