Wool and water
Alice in Wonderland is probably my second favourite1 book of all time, and definitely my most repeatedly read. I must have read it twice a year for a long stretch of my youth, so any new film adaptation is likely to at least pique my interest. Naturally a book so rich in imagery and so debated in its shades of meaning will introduce new ideas to all those that read it.
As someone who so enjoys knitting, the chapter Wool and Water threw up this idea for a new t-shirt:
Alice in Wonderland wool and water t-shirt from www.mrcloud.com
Alice wakes as if from a dream after all her adventures – and all of the characters, sheep included, are perhaps figments of her lucid imagination, but in this design it is the dreamer that is conceived from the mind, and needles, of her companion in the boat. Literally conceived of the sheep as wool from animal coat is spun and wound into balls and used to make a friend, at once of substance and yet imaginary. Details of this t-shirt show that Alice is in fact a knitted doll with buttons for eyes and yarn for hair. On the sheep’s knee sit the tools of his labour – his needles, and yarn spun from his wool.
This Alice in Wonderland t-shirt is available exclusively to ship worldwide from www.mrcloud.com, in pale blue, primrose and chocolate. Why not check out the knitting wooly Mammoth t-shirt, too, if you pop by.
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(1) The answer to the obvious question here is One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
