The Time of Crochet: Interruption, Plasticity, and the Domestic in Delhi

Abstract

Abstract Recent feminist writings have likened crochet to coral reefs and other ecological forms that privilege a hyperbolic and expansive creativity. Looping text with a series of photographs taken by the author between 2013 and 2016, this essay describes women's crochet in Delhi, India as a form that intensively manipulates surfaces rather than expanding along them. The proximate action of crochet – structured and expressive, domestic and otherworldly – imparts a disruptive plasticity to surroundings. Women's domestic lives are sites of sensory and temporal attunement, a wakefulness to the self, mediated by this plasticity of crochet in both practice and form.

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