As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P
jkhalaj · 5h ago
Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
srean · 3h ago
Same with weaving, especially the way symmetry is weft in.
Jaccard looms are too general, too unconstrained. I like shaft looms more gratifying. Their restrictions make it more interesting.
charcircuit · 3h ago
By that logic any instructions is programming and everyone on earth are programmers.
gbear605 · 28m ago
I’m not sure that I’d say that it’s programming, but it is a pretty neat DSL
yjftsjthsd-h · 25m ago
Instructions to machines probably are. Instructions to humans aren't because humans interpret things themselves and exercise free will in execution.
I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track.
different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders
MikeTheGreat · 7h ago
I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.
Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?
MandieD · 6h ago
Thread a flexible needle (usually called "circular") or a wire through a full row near the cut, unravel the remaining rows, then take a fine crochet hook to chain the loops together.
Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like what she does.
ethan_smith · 4h ago
Circular knitting typically uses a technique called "grafting" or "Kitchener stitch" to close tubes seamlessly without unraveling - you'd temporarily secure stitches on holders, cut one strand, then use a tapestry needle to mimic the path of the yarn through the live stitches.
imzadi · 6h ago
They might be sergering the edges.
data-ottawa · 4h ago
This is delightfully weird, I love projects like this.
socki · 4h ago
Is this something that can be seen in person?
gcanyon · 4h ago
I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.
burnt-resistor · 4h ago
This! That would be awesomesauce. I haven't seen his videos in a while.
nativeit · 3h ago
He retired the format a few years ago. Now he just does game shows and random projects with his friends, which...fair enough, that's what I'd do with a pile of passive YouTube income.
Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)
imzadi · 6h ago
I doubt it would be difficult to make. You can buy the knitting machine on amazon. They usually have a handle you can crank unless it is electric. Just attach a turbine to the handle.
rkagerer · 4h ago
I missed the (obvious) context and imagined an aircraft engine turbine attached.
As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P
Jaccard looms are too general, too unconstrained. I like shaft looms more gratifying. Their restrictions make it more interesting.
Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?
Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like what she does.