http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/knit-one-compute-one/
Of course not all data is text. Did you know in World War II the Belgian resistance recruited little old ladies who lived near trainyards to watch the German trains and secretly knit their movements into their projects. It’s true, I saw it on QI.
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And it would have advantages for designers too, because they could write a pattern in the way that makes sense to them, knowing that their audience could download it in the way they prefer. And more crucially, they could use tests and validation to check for errors. So many knitting patterns have errors. And they could even use a visualizer to preview the output.
A knitted and felted bag—this is a cool one—with a sewn-in Arduino where you actually upload your knitting pattern, press the button, and it lights up LEDs in patterns to indicate the next stitches that you’re meant to knit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110713153258/http://www.kirstyrobertson.com/viral%20knitting/viral%20knitting.html
The viral knitting project grew out of a desire to bring together the viral communication possibilities of the internet with the anti-war movement and Revolutionary Knitting Circles. The collaboration between art historians, communications scholars, activists and artists resulted in a project that took the binary code of the Code Red Virus, a virulent computer virus that exploits a bug in the indexing system of Microsoft Windows, and turned it into a knitting pattern. The binary code, made up of zeros and ones, was easily translated into the P(purl) and K(knit) stitches of knitting patterns. Once knitted, the virus became a scarf, something that was comforting, giftable, but intrinsically dangerous – a latent virus that could be easily transported over borders, into restricted areas, across threatened territories. In turn, because it was a virus, we hoped that the pattern/idea would spread, that people would pick up on the viral pattern and begin to knit it, or would take the idea and translate it to other codes.
The Viral Knitting Project will hopefully mutate and travel over the internet, either through individual knitters using the pattern, or through the performance of the project itself. The performance consists of four downloadable videos, any number of knitters, and re-claimed yarn, wound into balls made from the unravelling of “exhausted commodities” – the used sweaters that no longer play a role in the circulation of capital. Knitters gather in front of the videos (one or all may be shown), knitting the pattern of the virus in red, yellow, orange, and green, each colour in proportion to the number of days since September 11th that the United States has been under Code Red, Code Orange, Code Yellow and Code Green terrorism alert. The idea is to bring together a number of issues under one performance (in a manner similar to the affinity groups at global justice protests), but also to highlight some of the links between technology, culture, capitalism and war.
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http://dev.to/abbeyperini/knitting-as-programming-3e5
Craig, Peterson and Peterson go on to say that programmers can learn from the way the online knitting community has developed standard conventions for communicating concepts like iteration, conditions, and documenting design decisions. Specifically, the way they’ve come about while trying to make the patterns understandable to beginners. For example, using termination cases with “until” makes the while loop easier to understand. They also say that creating a knitted final object is analogous to tracing, as it demonstrates an understanding of the pattern.
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Other resources
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns https://handweaving.net/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQ_1oFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeZNM7PnAmVypK4Rg4etdSV7f_VlDQY9E14UGdtvHRUARbC4YAxJE3NYvQMKI_aem_njt75L6SDCX5oT4J_pz44A https://treadl.com/ https://oceanofpdf.com/ https://www.gistyarn.com/collections/weaving-patterns-and-kits?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQ_2PNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeQtGNVKnxZW_XEY_a0cu6TEDcGFxzC3dS0_LT1Oa-xKeHmfVjRlHfiWcc0oM_aem_qasuuVv1DwwGxnrr8ZQHxg https://heddlecraft.com/learn-to-weave.html?fbclid=IwRlRTSAQ_2TJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEew0OR7ei0zdENZsg7hm6z1aInbzQl6quW227ScfJCs23SVtt4ZryPJ0uFHR8_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw