Realistic flowers knitted by Tatyana Yanishevsky

Realistic flowers knitted by Tatyana Yanishevsky
First of all, such realism is the result of the deep knowledge of the subject. According to Tatyana Yanishevsky, she taught herself how to knit, dissected flowers and studied their anatomy in textbooks and greenhouses. She explains it like that: “It was a knitting challenge to create those forms, to have them be three-dimensional and puffed out where they needed to be”. Born in the Soviet Union, talented self-taught American artist Tatyana Yanishevsky is the Biologist by education (Brown University). Of course, this helps her reproduce anatomically correct botanical forms in yarn, in her studio in Providence, RI. And her featured artwork “The Knit Garden” includes hand-knitted flowers and plants, created in a variety of fibers, colors, and stitches. Meanwhile, the incredible reality of knitted plants is seen in various organs and every detail of the plant. Besides, the knitting process, stitch by stitch, conceptually mimics plant growth. Her sculptures vary in scale and range in form and style from realistic to abstraction.

The hanging “Tiger Lily” first photo) is 5 feet in diameter with six mottled yellow petals that curl all the way back in full bloom and have a cable-knit stitch down their length. And the craftswoman explains: “When I’m doing anatomical pieces, I look to the plant for reference, and lilies have parallel lines on their petals”
Yanishevsky used cables to create the channels and wove in varying shades of yellow. The big bobbles that represent the lily’s characteristic black spots are a favorite of hers.

Tatyana Yanishevsky is a very creative person. Much of her time is spent knitting, bending and welding metal, embroidering, building pulley systems, wiring simple circuits, installing stoves, singing, testing software, counting fish, dancing, and napping.

Realistic flowers knitted by Tatyana Yanishevsky

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