Crochet and Topology? How?

Margaret Wertheim is an Australian science writer and among other things she is cofounder of the Institute for Figuring, an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. The Hyperbolic crochet coral reef project is based on the work of Daina Taimina from the department of Mathematics at Cornell,  and is the main topic in this interesting talk at TED 2009.

Researching just a little more  I ended out coming across crocheted Möbius Scarfs and Klein Bottle hats… I can see this becoming a fashion between architects, physicists and mathematicians.

Further: Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects  by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel