New Zealanders Lissy and Rudi are on a crochet mission! The husband and wife team have embarked upon a 3D project of a staggering scale – they plan to create a wharenui, or traditional Mããori meeting house, entirely covered in crochet. The ‘build’ will take them many months, and is designed to celebrate Mãori culture.
“Wharenui Harikoa is a fully crocheted wharenui (Harikoa translates as ‘joy’), designed around the story of the M ori New Year, called Matariki,” explains Lissy. “This wharenui will be transportable and we will tour it throughout Aotearoa (the M ori name for New Zealand) and then the world. We see