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.
I've never worn knit socks, and I don't think I've ever seen a knit T-shirt, so I'm not quite sure what to look for (or at) :)
I was thinking of hand-knit clothing, which (as you say) tends to be big enough and chunky enough that you can see the stitches.
TIL - thanks :)
Compare with what you see on jeans and dress shirts, polo shirts, dress pants, socks, etc. It's quite interesting.
There are also some technical fabrics that are neither woven nor knitted (nor crocheted) fabrics. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonwoven_fabric
Jaccard looms are too general, too unconstrained. I like shaft looms more gratifying. Their restrictions make it more interesting.
It is from some summary of your dad's book that I had understood how shaft looms work.
Such beautiful weaves and such a small world. Happy meeting you here.
A reissue of your dad's book would be wonderful.
Tempus Nectit Knitting Clock - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882735 - May 2023 (10 comments)
Other related links (did I miss any?):
Consider Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143199 - May 2025 (143 comments)
Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614 - April 2025 (20 comments)
Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024540 - Feb 2025 (25 comments)
Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828754 - June 2024 (17 comments)
Unraveling the physics of knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683130 - June 2024 (15 comments)
Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307089 - May 2024 (29 comments)
A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613247 - April 2023 (78 comments)
Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897255 - Sept 2022 (19 comments)
Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423963 - June 2021 (6 comments)
Is Knitting Turing Complete? (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715534 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)
‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950589 - May 2019 (62 comments)
Woven silk prayer book created with punch cards on Jacquard loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252561 - Feb 2019 (1 comment)
Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153 - March 2018 (36 comments)
Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538038 - June 2017 (12 comments)
A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143482 - July 2016 (20 comments)
Nintendo Almost Made a Knitting Add-On for NES - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472337 - Sept 2012 (22 comments)
Knitting as programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986758 - May 2012 (12 comments)
Simulated Knitting in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329533 - Dec 2011 (7 comments)
Knitting is an Acceptable Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484292 - Feb 2009 (6 comments)
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plus the related topic of Jacquard looms:
How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41052908 - July 2024 (5 comments)
Manual on Jacquard Hand Loom Weaver (Frame Loom) (2007) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904850 - July 2020 (2 comments)
The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18261993 - Oct 2018 (4 comments)
Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing (2011) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993953 - Aug 2015 (9 comments)
Jacquard Loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479430 - Oct 2014 (15 comments)
Programming Jacquard's loom (1801) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691175 - July 2009 (2 comments)
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=weaving
For some more. Not all are related to fabrics.
Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/
It's been about fifteen years since I visited, but they had a big section on the evolution of the techniques. It started from hand lace making, then progressed through periods of different looms. From memory, I'm pretty sure they had a punch-card loom about 200 years old, that was actually operating while I was there.
He very, very clearly has no interest in returning to weekly videos on-location; more deeper dives or just something different.
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
If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.
Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!
I imagine this rube-goldberg'esque strandebeest-like contraption sitting out there harvesting wind and waves, slowly turning every bottle it gorges on into a finely woven matte of materials .. maybe even reproducing itself, who knows ..
EDIT: I asked Grok to design a self-replicating ocean weaver, and I have to say .. it seems like a viable idea to me. Perhaps we will see this kind of plastic harvesting in the near future .. at the very least, were I to be stranded on a plastic-laden island, I'm pretty sure I could work out a way to build a raft with sails ..
But as you say, turning them into something else isn't the critical part, collecting them in the first place is. The most important thing is taking them out of the environment so they stop breaking down into microplastics and the like.
Personally I think all these creative solutions for reusing plastics aren't so important. Collect it and put it in a giant landfill like an old open mine, bury it and forget about it until a future generation invents an efficient way to recycle it, then mine it like a resource.
I asked Grok and it said you didn't ask it.
The reason is that the scarves in the online shop look very tight and possibly created by something else. There is nothing that would prevent the seller from doing this legitimately if that is the case, because Wind Knitting Factory may just be the brand.
I’d like to think the scarves in their online shop are fully knitted by the wind, though.
I think it’s real.
There’s definitively post processing though as it’s knitting a tube. “Occasionally the knitwear gets ‘harvested’ and transformed into scarves.”
The part that would be missing from a wind-powered solution is the actual shaping of the sock. She spends a lot of time as she works futzing with the hooks on the machine to create the heel, toe, ribbing, etc. I'm not an expert in what she does, but I see enough to know that if this is just a turbine spinning the machine, you'd get a uniform tube, which would then be post-processed into individual fairly shapeless socks. Hand-crafting would shape the socks better, but the basic tubes are high quality even if unshaped.
There is also definitely a niche-within-a-niche of people who work on these machines coming up with all kinds of non-sock applications for well-knit tubes of fiber. Scarves are an obvious one, but re-working different sizes of tubes to create stuffed animals is one of the more fun ones.
Not that i could likely afford it.
https://www.amazon.com/SENTRO-knitting-machines-intelligent-...
Connect it to a wind powered generator or find a way to make a wind crank.
Yea, I know, it's not the same as a cool metal one and that video is from 2009
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I know this is art, but to be overly reductive, it's the same as buying your electricity from a wind farm and using it to power your knitting machine.