Unlike most adults and even children, babies find themselves most secure and safe when wrapped up tight whereas we feel safer being able to move our limbs if we need to
Like the straitjacket, it must also be to do with safety, to prevent the baby crawling away or putting objects in their mouths. My guess is it has a lot to with the way in which babies are carried, in the cradled arms of someone - in the same way I felt comfortable and at ease in Ron Arad's chair the Restless exhibition at the Barbican
This idea of wrapping up your baby has founded the idea of little pod-like cocoons, shown above. The two green ones were made using Crochet, the process of creating fabric from yearn or thread using a crochet hook. This fabric as you can see is thick but unlike most manufactured fabrics like cotton has some stretch in it, allowing the baby to feel cocooned but also allowing them to move around a bit
I cannot help but think the cocoon that the babies feel safe look a lot like the pod-shape of this bee or wasp thats been wrapped up by a spider, not just the shape but texture, the Crochet looks a lot like that of a spider web...
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