One Japan-related project attracts attention at "Knit 2 Together: Concepts in Knitting," organized by the U.K.'s Crafts Council and on show in London until May 15, from where it will set out to tour Britain as part of the "Knitting and Stitching Show 2005."
Celia Pym relates through memorabilia and a 24-meter-long length of blue knitting how in 2001 she knit and purled her way around the Japanese archipelago -- a trip that oddly (considering she is English) began in Cambridge, Mass.
"I was in my final year at Harvard, completing an art degree in visual and environmental studies. Engaged in mainly outdoor activities, I was measuring journeys and marking space, thinking about places we inhabit and the traces of ourselves that we leave in these spaces."