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HOMAGE TO THE (GRANNY) SQUARE
Homage to the (Granny) Square is a unique crochet course designed
to make full use of the beautiful range of colours in the Rowan Felted
Tweed Collection. It’s a programme of crochet designed to be playful,
intuitive and achievable by anyone with very basic crochet skills.
The course was developed as a way of learning
new crochet skills and developing existing
ones whilst exploring colour harmonies and
colour relationships.
The design of the course, the blanket and the
individual crochet squares all pay homage to
the lifetime’s work of the Modernist painter
Josef Albers and his investigations into the
interactions of colour.
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In the mid 20th century Albers began
painting what was to become over 2000
works of art entitled Homage to the Square.
The paintings were small compositions of
squares within squares which created unique
colour interactions and provoked different
visual effects, and this work is the inspiration
behind the Homage to the (Granny) Square
crochet course.
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