Cookery in Brussels

Back in May I had a lot of fun visiting IMAL in Brussels, for an experimental event bringing together live … More

Weaving with Laura Devendorf

After collaborating with experimental weaver, design researcher and technologist Laura Devendorf on many on-line events (including the algorithmic pattern salon … More

Knitting

I’m drawn back to Sanquhar knitting again!

A guide to the patterns
Videos from May MacCormick on knitting – knitting class introduction, part one, part two

I also found the seemingly less well-known tradition from the Yorkshire Dales of “Dales Glove…

A binary (black and white) grid of a weaving draft on the left, and a weave following it on the right, in blue and peppermint yarn.

Weaving 8-shaft crackle patterns

We acquired an eight-shaft table loom for the algorithmic pattern project, and have been exploring ‘crackle weave’ patterns, where a threading pattern is created by repeating a small motif is repeated along a path, with intermediate steps added accordi…