Chris Woebken Why I hacked a knitting machine | Fashion Some people use hacking to attempt bold endeavours like undermining the governments of tyrannical superpowers, while others use it for more trivial purposes, such as making all of the female characters nude in Skyrim. Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Salomone's innovative use of hacking to make custom knitwear will neither change the world nor impress gaming nerds, but it is going to make a lot of crafters very, very excited. After getting the help of some tech-savvy friends who fiddled with a USB cable to connect a Brother KH-930e electronic knitting machine to a computer, he is now able to make the machine knit photorealistic copies of digital images, sort of in the same way a desktop printer reproduces an image. How did you come up with the idea of hacking a knitting machine? I used to live in a really badly insulated house and I ended up sleeping in a balaclava in the winter. How do you get from the design stage to making the knitwear? Have you long been a fan of knitwear?
Gijs Bakker Rien Poortvliet Museum - Home abigail doan Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue: Home JoAnne Russo NEWS - Eric Klarenbeek, designer of the unusual Playground Crochet Artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam If you ever get a chance to go to the children’s area of the Takino Suzuran Hillside National Park in Sapporo, Japan then you’ll immediately notice a very cool, colorful landscape of crochet netting that kids can play on. This is the most famous work of textile artist Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam, the Rainbow Net. More about crochet artist Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam received her Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Art from Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. She then moved to the United States to get her Master of Fine Arts from Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Art. More about Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam’s crochet This crochet artist crochets colorful yarn into large scale nets that can be installed on playgrounds for children to climb upon. Playscapes, which is a fun blog all about playground design, recently had an article on this artist through which I learned the fun story about how she got started doing her large scale crochet playground pieces. Rainbow Net (2000)
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