Also known as the "Urchin Pouf":
Each piece is knitted by hand using natural wool and giant-sized needles. Presumably, the sheep are of the usual dimension.
She also creates rugs using similarly olympic-scaled cables.
The "Aran Rug":
Christien Meindertsma also has a new book. It's called "Pig 05049" and it may just change the way you look at manufactured everything. Juicy tidbits: Did you know that beer is often filtered (to remove cloudiness, a natural occurrence in the processing) with a gelatinous material made from rendered pig fat? Or bread dough is conditioned with a product rendered from porcine hair? The ubiquitous pig also shows up in soap, shampoo, and toothpaste as well as bullets and cement. (Bullets? As if they weren't un-kosher enough.)
See her TED talk on the book here. (Well worth the investment of 8:54 minutes of your time.)
