Knitting is complicated enough when you do it with threads. Now imagine knitting with glass? Well as impossible as it seems, there is one artist who does just that.
Carol Milne is a sculptor from Seattle who makes astonishing glass sculptures that resemble knitting works to the smallest details. Using a variation of the wax casting process, Milne is able to create numerous colorful glass threads that compose beautiful patterns.
Milne has experience in several different disciplines of art, but she has been exclusively dedicated to glass art since 2000. Through her work with glass, she often turned to experimentation and pushing the limits of her ingenuity, which led to this intriguing project.
“I see my knitted work as a metaphor for social structure,” the artist says on her website. “Individual strands are weak and brittle on their own, but deceptively strong when bound together. You can crack or break single threads without the whole structure falling apart. And even when the structure is broken, pieces remain bound together. The connections are what bring strength and integrity to the whole and what keep it intact.”
Check out some of her works below.
