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Ýrúrarí uses knitted body parts to give clothes a character of their own
Textile designer Ýrúrarí, who is nominated for this year s Icelandic Design Award, gives new life to worn-out clothes by adding playful knitted details such as eyes, tongues and fingers.
The Icelandic designer, whose real name is Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, likes to give character to sweaters and other garments which are old or broken and would otherwise have been thrown away.
This often involves adding cartoon-style facial features and other body parts, although she sometimes includes food references or pattern details. I give them a strong character to make them more memorable, she told Dezeen.