IN JANUARY, SOME 3000 PEOPLE visited Waikato Museum in downtown Hamilton to see a crochet exhibition. Forget about crocheted dollies or granny square blankets; Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole’s neon-bright Wharenui Harikoa takes a traditional craft to a different plane.
The husband and wife spent years carving (Rudi) and hand crocheting (both of them) the full-scale(House of Joy) in vibrant colours because they wanted it to spark “intergenerational healing and deeply felt joy”.
