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Anita Hirlekar (IS) > Colorful Knitwear Ana Paula Portilla (MX) > Crochet Sculpture Anna Marinenko (UA) > Chunky Knits Andrea Pritschow (DE) > Crocheted Phalluses Aldo Lanzini (IT) > Knitted & Crocheted Tribal Masks Bauke Knottnerus (NL) > Phat Knits Benjamn Hubert (UK) > 3D Knitted Tent Chair Althea Crome (US) > Miniature Knitting Carol Milne (CDN) > Knitted Glass B. Radjenovic (SRB) > Red Knitted Art Cassandra V. Green (UK) > Playful Knitwear Bertjan Pot (NL) > Rope Masks C. Maidertsma (NL) > Extreme Knitting Cecile Dachary (FR) > Anatomical Knitting Danit Peleg (IL) > 3D Fashion Chili Philly (AUS) > Ironic Crochet Diffus Design (DK) > Interactive Design David Cole (US) > The knitting Machine EJ Tech (HU) > Knitted MIDI Interface DesirĂŠe De Baar (NL) > Knitted Sculptures Elsworthy Wang (CDN) > Knitted Lamp Ernesto Neto (BR) > Crochet Installations F. Alexander University (DE) > Knittable Carbon Fibers Freddie Robins (UK) > Subversive Knitting Georgia Farrell (UK) > Architectural Knitwear Germaine Koh (MAL) > Re-knitting Gil Yefman (IL) > Gender, Sexuality And Others Knits Gerard Rubio (ES) > Open Knit Hayley Grundman (UK) > Unusual Materials & Shapes Giuliana S. Herrera (FR) > Pathole Knitting Hannah Podbury (UK) > Innovative Knitting Isabel Berglund (DK) > Time Machine Helen Price (UK) > Rich Textures Knits Jaqueline Fink (AUS) > Extreme Knitting Jane Bowler (UK) > Mixed Media Jennifer Ramirez (FIN) > Crocheted Self Portrait Jessica Dance (UK) > Electronic & Streetstyle Knits Jessie Hemmons (US) > Craftivist Jessica Leclaire (FR) > Innovative Knitwear KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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ARTISTS A-Z *DESIGN FOCUS*
*ART FORM* Joana Vanconcelos (PT) > Extravagant Sculptures Johanna Schweizer (NL) > Mythological Crochet Kate Jenkins (AUS) > Crocheted Food Art Laurel Roth Hope (US) > Critical Crochet Lauren Seiffert (US) > Crochet Anatomy Lizard Mouth 2014 (International Project) Loretta Grayson (AUS) > Knitted Kitchen Louise Bourgeois /FR) > Knitted Masks & Sculptures Madame Tricot (CH) > Realistic Knitworks Magda Sayeg (US) > Guerrilla Knitting M. & C. Wertheim (AUS) > Hyperbolic Crochet Mariko Kusamoto (JP) > Sculptural Fabric Brooch Melissa M. Haims (US) > Knit Graffiti M. Yamashita + N. Kobayashi (JP) > Giraffe Installation Nan Nickson (US) > 3D Crochet Nick cave (US) > Knitted Soundsuits Sculptures Nora Fok (HK) > Knitted Nylon Orly Genger (US) > Crochet Land Art Olek (PL) > Guerrilla Knitting
Jonathan Rowley (UK) > 3D Nylon Samples
JS Shoes (US) > 3D Knitted Footwear Julia Seregina (RUS) > Contemporary Knits Katie Jones (UK) > Playful Aestetics & Serious Ethics Ka Wa Key (CHN) > Hybridities K. Hermansen (DK) > Textile Knits Kniterate (UK) > Digital Knitting Machine Kwangho Lee (ROK) > Knit Light Katika (RUS) > Crochet Portraits Laura Kate Cooper (UK) > New Materials Laura McPherson (UK) > Experimental Knitted Textile Leutton Postle (UK) > Tribal Knitwear Linkoping & Boras University (S) > Knitted Muscles Lucy Simpson (UK) > Tactile Exploration Linda Awaku (CDN) > Knitted Art Jewellery Lindsay Green (US) > Quirky Knits London Kaye (US) > Crochet Street Art Mandy Basek (US) > Textile based Jewelery Mao-Tsen Chang (CHN) > Structural Knitting Miriam Ponsa (ES) > Contemporary Knitwear
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ARTISTS A-Z *DESIGN FOCUS*
*ART FORM* Patricia Waller (DE) > Macabre Crochet Rania Hassan > Sculptural Stories (Knit & Paint) Sam Jaffe (US) > Knitted Paintings & Sculptures Sandra Becker (DE) > Textile Crochet Objects Sarah Apllebaum (US) > Symbolic Knitting Sheila Hicks (US) > Fiber Installations Siren E. Wilhelmsen (DE) > 365 Knitting Clock Stine Lenth (DK) > Patchwork Knits Superblue Design (UK) > Giant Knitting Toshico Horiuchi (JP) > Knitted Playgrounds Tracy Widdes (UK) > Brutal Knitting  Yarn Bombing (video documentary) Valerie A. Molnar (US) > Abstract Knitted Wall Art Yulia Ustinova (RUS) > Sculptural Crochet Yvette K. Smith (CZ) > Crocheted Fiber Glass
Nuna Lab (PE) > Responsible Knitwear Nike (US) > Flyknit Technology Olivia Rose Havelok (UK) > Childhood Knits Patricia Urquiola (ES) > Biknit Petra Blaisse (NL) > Knitted Solar Curtain Rachel John (UK) > Extreme Textile/Knit/Crochet R. & E. Bouroullec (FR) > 3D Knitted Fabric Rafaela Graspointer (AU) > Graphic Knitwear Sarah Benning (UK) > Oversized Latex Knits Sarah Sweeney (UK) > Surrealistic Knitwear
Sensoree Ger (US) > Therapeutic Biomedia
Stone Island (IT) > Color Changing "Ice Knit" Tracy Krumm (US) > Artsy Knitted Objects Trixie Von Purl (UK) > Ironic Puppets Vanina Yankova (BG) > Knitted Fabric Manipulation WATG & Central Saint Martins (UK) WATG & Vivienne Westwood (UK) Xiao Li (CHN) > Knit + Silicone Yen Cheng Chang (UK) > Knit Talking Textile Yuki Fujusawa (JP) > Contemporary Knitwear
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Ana Paula Portilla (Mexico)
Crochet Sculpture
Artist Ana Paula Portilla has utilized a variety of mediums over the years. Ana has created installations that involve textile art, oil and watercolor paintings on various surfaces, and crochet sculpture. She has explored a number of themes with her artwork – including the status of women and ideas concerning the loss of natural landscapes. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Andrea Pritschow (Germany)
Crocheted Phalluses
Pritschow’s art objects, simultaneously resembling knit trinkets and sex toys, play with the associations normally ascribed to male genitalia. What’s often categorized as masculine, hard and virile is suddenly feminized, softened, and domesticated. Pritschow’s move, at once playful and political, acts as a much appreciated rebuttal to the art historical tendency to eroticize the female body, like, all the time. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Aldo Lanzini (Italy)
Knitted&Crocheted Tribal Masks
Aldo Lanzini De Agostini D’Aviance was born in Sondrio in 1968. Having trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, he specialized in multimedia, obtaining a master at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. His various works in crochet are of a virtuoso workmanship in improvisation. They range from small animals, to masks, clothes, each one more improbable than the other. During his ten years in New York, Aldo Lanzini distinguished himself as a stylist and costume designer for personalities of the alternative scene. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Althea Crome (US)
Miniature Knitting
Althea Crome has pioneered knitting at a 1:12 scale. She holds the title of fellow at the International Guild of Miniature Artisans (IGMA), and her process of creating extreme knitting requires an incredible level of precision and skill. She makes her own wire knitting needles, which have a diameter of .01 inches, and uses a fine, silk sewing thread, rather than yarn, to achieve the tiny stitches that compose her works. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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B. Radjenovic (Serbia)
Red Knitted Art
Bozica Radjenovic is a visual artist whose work explores relationship between materials and subject matter. She loves the color red: an ambiguous color that brings emotions and questions our judgment about love and hate. Red is the first color that we see coming into this world, therefore, for her, it is the most important color. She makes soft sculpture that can be carried in a suitcase. The wool speaks ambiguously of a connection, a way back to the point of origin, to childhood, and of the instability of memory. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Bertjan Pot (Netherlands)
Rope Masks
Although seemingly these masks tell stories, this again started out as a material experiment. He wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together he could make a large flat carpet. Instead of flat, the samples got curvy. When he was about to give up on the carpet, Vladi came up with the idea of ​shaping the rope into masks. The possibilities are endless, he's meeting new faces every day. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Cecile Dachary (France)
Anatomical & Biological Knitting
Cecile Dachary primarily focuses on the human body looking at the theme of memory and the passing of time. She works with textiles using traditional needle work, sewing, embroidery and crochet. Cecile is very interested in not only the external but the internal form of the body and looks at mixing the beautiful and the monstrous through working with delicate materials but referencing gruesome body parts. Cecile strives to reduce the distance between crafts/art and science. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Chili Philly (Australia)
Ironic Crochet
Since August 2014, as a way of connecting and making new friends in Melbourne, Phil Ferguson has been creating crochet hats and posting them on social media plat form Instagram with an overwhelmingly positive response. Since then he has now over 100k followers and has been featured by Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Frankie Magazine, BBC and even on Instagram's account itself.
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David Cole (US)
The Knitting Machine
Cole's project under the name of "The Knitting Machine" (2005) comprises two excavators specially fitted with massive 20’ knitting needles. The product of The Knitting Machine is an oversized American flag – a flag which can be seen as both a celebratory gesture of pride and a commentary on America’s role in world affairs.
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Desirée De Baar (Neatherlands)
Knitted Sculptures
With precise skill and mission to play with perception, Dutch artist Desiree de Baar forms recreations of everyday objects from knitted yarn and embroidered threads. Amongst her repertoire are objects like a bathtub, kitchen sink and counter, fireplace and set of wooden-looking doors, all made of knitted wool. De Baar, who says she is ‘fascinated with space,’ has also created more abstract models like a free-standing prison cell room or observation point using the same knitted materials. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Ernesto Neto (Brasil)
Crochet Installations
Ernest Neto is one of Brazil's pre-eminent artists. His inviting installations are immersive habitats that engulf us in a sensual world. He began exhibiting internationally in 1995 and since the he has shown his work in major museums and galleries around the world. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Freddie Robins (UK)
Subversive Knitting
She uses knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition, as well as the cultural preconceptions surrounding knitting as craft. Her work aims to disrupt the notion of the medium as passive and benign. Her pieces often incorporate both humour and fear. There is also a display of almost obsessive perfectionism in the quality of each piece’s hand-made finish. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Germaine Koh (Malaysia)
Re-knitting
Knitwork is a life-long piece made by her unraveling used garments and re-knitting the yarn into a single continuously growing object. As it records the ongoing passage of time and effort, the work becomes a monument to the artifacts that comprise it, to mundane activity, and to everyday labour. It is both sublime and resolutely absurd, both excessive and banal, both rigorous and formless; in other words, it is a practical test of the imagination. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Gil Yefman (Israel)
Gender, Sexuality And Others Knits
By deconstructing and transforming canonized familiar myths from varied beliefs and traditions, and creating fantastic realms where characters with elusive gender, sexual and political identities serve as alternative cultural heroes he tries to challenge and undermine the structured definitions and portrayal of the “other�, in order to explore and cherish the intrinsic potential of the extra-ordinary. Through a manifold spectrum of practices and media, and with a prevalent predilection for the craftswomanship of crochet knitting, he indulges in the therapeutic virtues of knitting as means to dwell on personal and collective traumas, as well as to reflect upon recurrent obsessive patterns in mankind's societies. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Giuliana S. Herrera (FR)
Pothole Knitting
Artist juliana santacruz herrera has transformed the streets of Paris through her visual intervention using braided strips of colourful fabric. seeing the many cracks and potholes of the city as the ‘canvas’ of her project, the site-specific pieces are a playful addition to the grey urban setting. Long lengths of dyed fabrics are braided and then coiled into the shallow breaks in the street. often made up of a combination of bright colours, the resulting effect creates a graphic and visually-arresting contrast to the city’s palette.
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Isabel Berglund (Denmark) Time Machine
‘Spinning Time Machine’ is a hand-made hybrid: part industrial machine, part traditional spinning wheel and part time machine, complete with cogwheels reminiscent of a mechanical clockwork. Spinning here takes on a new dimension by producing a bright, visible representation of time. Although the soft, tactile piece does not actually move, it nevertheless generates a sense of motion and progression. Because all the components of the piece, from the string to the interior ‘mechanical’ structure, appear in the same mint-green colour, they appear to have been cut from the same material – perhaps the very fabric of time? *Material* exterior: handknit and knotted polyester string /interior: cut EPS foam, CNC-cut wood, acrylic paint KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Jaqueline Fink (Australia) Extreme Knitting
Art As Therapy
After her mother received a life-saving double lung transplant, Fink found herself in a heightened state of creativity, which after months of experimentation resulted in the launch of Little Dandelion. Hand crafting stunning blankets, throws, wall hangings and home furnishings, Fink is taking knitting to the max it’s her quiet rebellion against mass production. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Jennifer Ramirez (Finland)
Crocheted Self-portrait
Crochet seems to be a big part of who Jennifer Ramirez of The Sun and the Turtle is, so it makes perfect sense that she’s gone ahead and crocheted a part of herself in this fantastic crocheted self-portrait. Ramirez carefully documented each step in the process of crocheting herself along the way, like creating a mask of her own face to use as a form for her crocheted features.
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Jessie Hemmons (US)
Craftivist
Jessie Hemmons may be better known as Ishknits throughout the streets of Philadelphia, where many have seen her street art. From knitting fashion accessories to crocheting powerful feminist statements in art exhibitions, Hemmons’ talents has been showcased all across the city. In her work, Hemmons’ core mission revolves around womanhood and art. Crochet uses a feminine medium to create a catalyst that sparks conversations regarding women and empowerment. Through it all, she hopes to make an artistic impression on as many people as possible and allow access to impactful art, even to those who feel excluded from the fine art world. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Joana Vanconcelos (Portugal) Extravagant Sculptures
Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist who explores disparate themes like feminism, consumerism, and architecture through larger-than-life installations and a range of materials that bring deeper meaning to her work. She is known for exploring the interplay between handcrafted and mass-produce items by covering industrial products in extravagant decorations
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Johanna Schweizer (Netherlands)
Mythological Crochet
Johanna Schweizer’s tool is the crochet hook. With this archaic technique and shrilly colored polymer threads, she creates a diverse array of figures that openly reveal their sexuality. Sometimes bizarre or even demonic, her figures are inspired by the world of mythology and recall long-forgotten cultic rituals. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Kate Jenkins (Australia)
Crocheted Food Art
Kate Jenkins dishes up some crochet food: she creates some of the most innovative knitted art we’ve seen and all with a humorous (if not tasty) twist. Although her pieces are made of yarn and sequins, they look good enough to eat and have a 3D structure often difficult to realize with the soft medium. With a collection of work that has garnered attention worldwide from a diverse demographic of collectors and galleries, her pieces often weave a fine line between the beautiful and the witty. While the fish looks delicious and attractive, other examples take the form of familiar products with their tag-lines cleverly changed. KIY (Knit It Yourself) 28
Laurel Roth Hope (US)
Critical Crochet
These crocheted bird suits by artist Laurel Roth Hope are each designed to fit a standard urban pigeon. While the project isn’t without a bit of humor, its warning is particularly dire: each suit represents an extinct bird species and highlights the futility of restoring lost biodiversity. The works are purposely displayed on hand-carved pigeon mannequins to suggest that animals we most abhor are often the ones most capable of thriving within a human-made environment. Hope has worked as a natural-resource conservator and park ranger, both of which have deeply influenced her artwork that explores themes of environmental harm, extinction, and consumerism. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Lauren Seiffert (US)
Crochet Anatomy
Her work engages formal concerns of balance, color, and scale in combination with ubiquitous materials to create fragile and corporeal sculptures.
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Lizard Mouth 2014
Yarn Bombing
Almost one year in the making, the massive Lizard's Mouth project incorporated the work of 388 contributors from 36 countries and all 50 US states. A gorgeous garden of sandstone boulders 3,000 feet above Santa Barbara, Lizard's Mouth is a favorite destination for college students, families and taggers. In June 2014, the US Forest Service granted me a permit to wrap 18 of the boulders in handmade fiber art. Hundreds flocked to the site to catch a glimpse before it all disappeared without a trace a few days later.
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Loretta Grayson (Australia) Knitted Kitchen
Brought to life by more than 50 artists, the 'Knitchen' features everything you would expect to find in a kitchen from the food to the furniture. Warwick Art Gallery, in Queensland, Australia, hosted the installation, with the floor alone being made up of more than six kilograms of yarn. To create the stunning display, a variety techniques were used - such as crocheting, felting, knitting and weaving KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Louise Bourgeois (France)
Knitted Masks & Sculptures
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, into a well-to-do family that ran a workshop that restored medieval and Renaissance tapestries. In 1938, she moved to the United States, where she was to live for the rest of her life. A member of the American Abstract Artists Group, she achieved critical acclaim and commercial success at the age of 71, following the retrospective organized by MoMA in 1982. Her original and complex oeuvre is both diverse and fascinating, examining memory, sexuality, motherhood, human relationships and the quest for balance. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Madame Tricot (Swiss)
Relistic Knitworks
Madame Tricot loves to push boundaries, all the while never breaking them. She loves humor and kitsch, the macabre, and the interestingly ambiguous. She specializes in 3D objects, particularly perishable goods – in more or less fresh condition. As medical doctor, the line between life and death has always gripped her. She finds the knitting of food particularly appealing, especially meat, which hangs persistently on the edge of life and decay. Her work has been seen in several museum exhibitions in Switzerland. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Magda Sayeg (US)
Guerrilla Knitting
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please (a collective of yarn bombers who set to work covering mundane urban objects) in 2005, has been called "the mother of yarn bombing". Sayeg has been producing some of the cleverest, most mind-boggling yarn art like parking meters, street signs and lamp posts with colorful yarn. Embraced in the knitting community for her optimism and creativity, Sayeg’s reputation grew quickly. Her work later shifted from yarn bombing to knit art installations including commissions to create pieces for Commes des Garçon, Gap, and Mini Cooper. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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M. & C. Wertheim (Australia)
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
A sea of vibrant colors and fantastic structures, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project was exhibited in the Sant Ocean Hall Focus Gallery from October 16, 2010 through April 24, 2011. Created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring, the project uses crocheting techniques that employ hyperbolic geometry to create complex, natural-looking forms, drawing connections between the crocheted reefs and living corals, such as the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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Mariko Kusamoto (Japan) Sculptural Fabric
Brooch
Delicate to the touch and versatile enough to be your go-to pieces, each brooch is handmade from textured clusters of multi-colored fabric. Evoking exotic plant life or deep-sea flora, these playful, poetic pieces are made in the USA by Japanese designer Mariko Kusumoto. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Melissa M.Haims (US)
Knit Graffiti & Crochet Installations
Melissa Maddonni Haims is a sculptor who creates knit graffiti, soft sculpture, and large-scale installations using knitted and crocheted yarns. Additionally, she sews unconventional quilts using vintage fabrics and subversive text. The majority of her work is produced using recycled, reclaimed and rescued textile materials.
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Maya Yamashita (Japan) + Naoto Kobayashi
Giraffe Installation
Essentially knitting is a warm-hearted activity with the aim of sending love to family members or lovers. The artists completed the knitting of a super large life-sized sweater for a 4-meter-tall giraffe in a zoo. In winter they kept knitting the long-necked turtle-neck sweater stroke by stroke and day after day for two months, although they knew that the giraffe would never accept the sweater or wear it.. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Nan Nickson (US)
3D Crochet
She aspires to render commonplace subjects in a way that reveals their sublime beauty. She wants the viewer to see the dual nature of illusion - a visual and felt impression of a moment in time, which shows the structure and materials involved for what they are. This piece (made by crocheting, using twine and beeswax) is about timelessness, death, and what is left behind before it occurs. It is about permanence, decay, and joy. It is still, and in motion. Contradictions. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Nick Cave (US)
(Knitted) Soundsuits Sculptures
Nick Cave is a performance artist and fabric sculptor has been creating intricate wearable sculptures for nearly twenty years. ‘Soundsuit‘ pieces are formed from an wide array of materials obtained from various locales: Cave brings elements such as sequins, twigs, feathers, knit pieces, buttons, beads, wire, metal, human hair and voodoo dolls to his collection of vibrant human-scale works. Having worked as a dancer he incorporates this appreciation of human form and movement in the development of his soundsuits. The pieces are intended to be worn, the whimsical quality of each ensemble is further enhanced by the dynamism of the person inside the elaborate outfit. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Nora Fok (Hong Kong)
Knitted Nylon
3D Designer of Jewellery, Beasties and Knitted Nature, Nora Fok has established herself as a pioneering maker, crafting her delicate, intricate forms from nylon microfilament. Nora makes her work by hand using techniques she has taught herself: knitting, knotting, tying, weaving, plaiting.
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Orly Genger (US)
Crochet Land Art
Best known for creating large-scale installations from coils of rope, Orly Genger also makes small metal sculptures and collaborates with the designer Jaclyn Mayer to produce knotted rope jewelry. Red, Yellow, and Blue (2013), installed in Madison Square Park, is made of 1.4 million feet of hand-crocheted lobster-fishing rope, with which she created three towering structures painted in the primary colors. To create it, she and a team of assistants spent almost every day in her studio over a period of two years, cleaning lobster claws and fish bones out of the rope and crocheting it into strips. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Olek (Poland)
Guerrilla Knitting
Despite frequent connotations of her work with yarn bombing - a recently popular form of street art - Agata Oleksiak, aka Olek, prefers to associate her creative output with mainstream art (as opposed to amateur actions). She has gone where no crochet artist has gone before. Olek uses her crochets to cover public spaces and objects in an activist guerilla fashion but her body of work includes equally critical performative pieces. She’s let a purple bull loose on Wall Street, made doily mermaids – and even plastered an entire apartment with her sardonic stitchwork. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Patricia Waller (Germany)
Macabre Crochet
The artist is interested in our fears and our ability to suppress them – that’s why Patricia plays with various themes that we usually ignore like fears of aging, illness and disability. “Due to the technique of crocheting – all my works are produced by myself in handicraft – and the selection of the subject-matter, my works seem harmless at first sight. But if you take a closer look, you will discover biting irony and a strong dose of nastiness.” says Patricia. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Rania Hassan (US)
Sculptural Stories made of Knitting and Painting
Rania Hassan combines knitting and painting to weave sculptural stories about our connections to time, place, and circumstance. She says: "My work is about the levels of connectedness we feel. I paint, draw, and knit to represent moments of these feelings. We are all connected somehow. I started this series because of my fascination with knitting, and love for painting. I am also intrigued by the community I’ve found online with knitters from around the world. I think about how it links me to my mother, and her mother, and all the women who came before them." KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Sam Jaffe (US)
Knitted Paintings & Sculptures
Sam Jaffe is a visual artist currently living and working in Chicago, IL. Characterized by toxic color and overstuffed, mutated forms, her recent work explores labor, folk and domestic art traditions, ornamentation, collecting behaviors, femininity, and the grotesque fallibility of the human body. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Sandra Becker (Germany)
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Sarah Applebaum (US)
Symbolic Knitting
Self-taught artist, maker, sculptor, painter, knitter, crochet master, costume designer and installation-creator Sarah Applebaum makes brilliantly psychedelic, totally surreal 3D work for her own enjoyment and at the request of clients. Giant felt guns, neon yetis and voyeuristic eyes peering from trompe-l’œil holes in the floor all feature in Sarah’s brilliantly engaging portfolio. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Sheila Hicks (US)
Fiber Installations
Pioneering fiber artist Sheila Hicks blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture with her vibrant woven and textile works, which she creates in many shapes and sizes, from wall mountings that mimic the format of painting to suspended pieces that hang from ceiling to floor like textured columns.
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Siren E.Wilhelmsen (Germany)
365 Knitting Clock
Time is manifested in physical objects; in things that grow, develop or extinguish. Time is an ever forwardmoving force and I wanted to make a clock based on times true nature, more than the numbers we have attached to it. 365 Knitting Clock stitches time as it passes by. It knits 24 hours a day, one year at the time, presenting the physical representation of time as a creative and tangible force. After 365 days the clock has turned the passed year into a two-meter long scarf. Now the past can be carried out into the future and the upcoming year is hiding in a new spool of thread, still unknitted. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Stine Lenth (Denmark)
Knitted Sculptures and Patchwork Knits
Asymmetrical designs and color-blocking with a patchwork look. Danish knit-artist Stine Leth works with colorful wool and yarn to create beautifully layered pieces. In addition to adding texture to any room, they also have a wonderful sense of depth and movement.
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Superblue Design (UK)
Giant Knitting
Entitled Giant Knitting Nancy, the project is a metaphor for the “interwoven cultures, spaces and places that help make the London a distinctive place.” By collaborating with sculptor Dan Preston and jewelry designer Holly Packer, the team of Superblue Design created a large-scale knitted structure which doubles as an “interactive architectural seating unit.”.
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Toshico Horiuchi (Japan)
Knitted Playgrounds
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam is known for her massive, colorful architectural sculptures/playgrounds. The most famous example of her work is the expansive net-structure inside the "Woods of Net" Pavilion at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan - which Horiuchi MacAdam knitted, entirely by hand, over the span of a year.
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Tracy Widdes (UK)
Brutal Knitting
Brutal Knitting is an absolutely delightful ongoing project of sci-fi-inspired monster masks handknit by artist Tracy Widdess.
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Valerie A. Molnar (US)
Abstract Knitted Wall Art
Valerie Anne Molnar combines knitting and wall murals into bold installations full of color and texture. Knitted installations as well as smaller doodles often feature different floral motives in an abstract fashion using the art of hand knitting. "Nostalgic for certain modernist principles (or the type of conviction to the principals carried out by that era’s heroes), I draw upon their formalistic values for my images. On top, I interject a friendly sense of play, or a different type of nostalgia along the same lines of sincerity, with the connotations of knitting and textures of my process and materials.“ (V.A.M.) KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Yulia Ustinova (Russia)
Sculptural Crochet
Yulia Ustinova, is creating soft sculptures from crochet with a sculptural form inside. There is nothing granny about her work. It is bold, direct and brings a smile to the viewer. Yulia has been formally trained in art and has taken her training along with using the old craft of crochet to sculpture her ‘big women’ or in Russian, “tetki” – it means uneducated and ungroomed women. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Yvette K. Smith (Czech Republic) Crocheted
Fiber Glass
Crocheted Fiberglass Materials & Process Fiberglass is fiber made from spun glass. Often, old car windshields are used to make the fiber. Fiberglass is the material that boat bodies, surfboards, and some car bodies are made from. Typically, the material is used in conjunction with polyester resin and a mold of some sort. Fiberglass comes in the form of mat, cloth, or continuous roving. She crochets the fiberglass dry, right off the spool. She use a standard 6mm, US J-10, crochet hook. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Anita Hirlekar (Iceland)
Colorful Knitwear
ANITA HIRLEKAR is a luxury womenswear label based in Reykjavik, creating handmade garments with strong attention to color and texture. The brands aim is to develop a vision that will reflect the richness and uniqueness of the human touch. All the pieces are made & developed in our studio in north of Iceland. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Anna Marinenko (Ukraine)
Chunky Knits
Ohhio’s story began last year. It's creator, Anna Marinenko, began experimenting with exceptionally soft and luxurious merino wool yarn. The material's distinctive properties gave her the creative impulse to knit the first Ohhio blanket. Since then we’ve become more experienced, but no less sensitive, in creating simple and honest things.
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Bauke Knottnerus (Netherlands) Phat Knits
Dutch designer Bauke Knottnerus designed the ‘phat knit’ series in 2008. the series of oversized furniture pieces each resemble knitting in a variety of scales. one piece features a series of multi coloured strings that can be tied or woven together, while another consists of a single giant knot. the knitted pieces are actually made using giant knitting needles. these needles and the over-sized strings can be used to produce a variety of object from carpets to KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Benjamin Hubert (UK)
3D Knitted Tent Chair x Moroso
Benjamin Hubert’s design firm LAYER recently unveiled the knitted Tent Chair for Moroso utilizing a brand-new, three-dimensional knit, the world’s first 3D-knitted Tent Chair comes about after two years in development and *20* prototypes, which is no surprise giving Hubert’s focus on smart materials. The chair consists of over two million knitted loops and 50,000 meters of yarn that come together to form a single seamless piece. It’s topped off with integrated cushions and sleeves that the steel frame gets inserted in. By using digital knitting technology, only a single production process is required – meaning it’s way more efficient. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Carol Milne (Canada)
Knitted Glass
Carol is the lone pioneer in the field of knitted glass. Pushing the limits of her material through persistent and relentless experimentation, determined to combine her passion for knitting with her love for cast glass sculpture, she developed a variation of the lost wax casting process to cast knitted work in glass. She says: “I see my knitted work as metaphor for social structure. Individual strands are weak and brittle on their own, but deceptively strong when bound together. You can crack or break single threads without the whole structure falling apart. And even when the structure is broken, pieces remain bound together. The connections are what bring strength and integrity to the whole and what keep it intact.�
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Cassandra V. Green (UK)
Playful Knitwear
For her debut collection 'Neptune's Daughter' cassandra uses very intricate techniques along with unconventional materials, such as transparent knit and crystal spiked beading that give the wearer a luxurious but fun experience. She strongly believes that fashion is an "experience" that the wearer should have with the clothes and therefore should not be taken too seriously. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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C. Maidertsma (Netherlands)
Extreme Knitting
Christien Meindertsma knits clothing and furniture from wool in a very conscious way, connecting the wool used in manufacturing to the actual sheep it was taken from and by regaining understanding of processes that have become so distant in industrialization. Her projects range in a number of traditional clothing items, as well as more unique pieces such as a knitted-wool carpet and ‘pouf’ ottomans. These oversized pieces, also use oversized knitting needles customized for the task. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Danit Peleg (Israel)
3D Fashion
Danit Peleg is a graduate of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel has taken the bold step of launching a 3D printed collection. At first she struggled because the printing material was so inflexible, but then was introduced to FilaFlex, a new kind strong flexible printable filament. This is the first full collection designed to be produced on home printers in a move to make home printing of clothing more accessible and viable. Predicting future developments Danit suggests that fashion could become more like music in its accessibility; "Customers could download the patterns, just like music files, and print them.�
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Diffus Design (Denmark)
Interactive Textile
Collaborative clothing: experience with and learn from situations of communication through what we wear and bring that to a higher or different level through the combination of computer technology and the materiality of fabric. The aim is to develop systems of what Diffus Design calls “collaborative or communicating clothing” which will bring forth new sophisticated platforms of expression in terms of fashion, performance art, dance theatre or likewise. One of the main missions for Diffus Design is to combine traditional know-how and codified production processes with uncharted ‘soft’ technologies and complex materials. The idea is to emphasise familiarity, luxury and comfort and try to combine different materials and innovative technology in often unpredictable ways and unconventional twists but always with strong concepts and clear narratives. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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EJ Tech (Hungary)
Knitted MIDI Interface
EJ Tech, in the attempt of creating a synergy between the digital and physical world made this knit project with conductive materials. Exploring new ways of interaction between humans and technology, EJ Tech works in the fields of experimental interfaces, e-textiles, interactive installations and hybrid art projects. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Elsworthy Wang (Canada)
Knitted Lamp
Engaging in several creative disciplines, ELSWORTHY WANG produces speculative and real architecture, art, and design. Their focus is on multi-disciplinary research and making, and the merging of techniques, scales, and materials to generate ideas, objects, and/or spaces.
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F. Alexander (Germany) University
Knittable Carbon Fibers
Germany scientists manufactured knitted fabrics made of silicon carbide fiber. These knitted carbon fibers offer a superior flexibility, wide range of pore size, and a higher degree of drapability. Scientists derived the critical bending loads from fiber knot and loop testing in order to optimize yarn pretension, working speed, and take up speed during knitting processing. Subsequently, they tested and examined the mechanical behavior of the knit fabric under tensional load. Friedrich Alexander University in Erlagen, Nurnberg
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Georgia Farrell (UK)
Architectural Knitwear
Georgia Farrell is a freelance hand-knitting designer and pattern writer, creating modern, striking hand knit garments, accessories and home accessories. Her work is inspired by her love of modern architecture, picking out geometric surface patterns and bold architectural structures and lines from buildings, which she then interprets and translates into her designs and written hand knitting patterns. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Gerard Rubio (Spain)
Open Knit
The OpenKnit machine is an open-source, low cost, digital fabrication tool developed by Gerard Rubio. The machine affords the user the opportunity to create his own clothing from digital files. Designing, producing and wearing clothes can now happen in the very same place, allowing the user to make decisions regarding creativity and responsibility. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Hayley Grundman (UK) Unusual Material
& New Shapes
Its about pushing knitwear and womenswear in new ways, using unusual materials and creating new shapes, but always keeping it feminine at the same time. Letting the knit decide how the piece will develop. As an example she uses plastic laundry bags, coins, lollypop sticks, springs and old t-shirts to fully embrace the theme or concept. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Hannah Podbury (UK)
Innovative Knitting
Hannah Podbury's innovative designs show her passion for transforming everyday (and seemingly 'unattractive') materials into wearable 'works of art'. In a world of digital printing and mass produced clothing, Hannah is passionate about creating hand-made pieces using unique techniques such as hand-dying, screen printing, knitting and embroidery that cannot be re-created by machine. Having a strong focus on sustainability, her designs and experimentations are usually made from found objects. Scraps of material, plastics, rubber, nylonand most recently-tubular crin are dyed, melted, slashed, tied, printed or knitted... Allowing the materials and process to dictate the shape of the garments. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Helen Price (UK)
Rich Textures Knits
Interesting, playful, and rich with texture. Her style is a drift between masculine feminine, like a good pair of trousers with a bit of lippy. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Jane Bowler (UK)
Mixed Media
With her constant exploration and discovery of new and exciting materials, Jane Bowler encompasses much more than just a fashion label. She constantly endeavours to inspire people through lectures, teaching and creative workshops. Her most popular is Construction Lab which is an exciting experimental workshop combining the skills and knowledge of both Jane Bowler and the JB head of knitwear Heather Orr. Students learn a range of innovative constructed textiles techniques and are also encouraged to experiment with materials and processes.
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Jessica Dance (UK)
Knitted Electronic & Streetstyle Objects
Jessica Dance new project consist in knitting electronic, vintage and “street-culture� objects like the first Apple iMac, the Walkman of Sony or Nike sneakers. Little creations only made with wool and that make us rediscovering these objects. Jessica's commissions span across the worlds of advertising, art, editorial and installation. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Jessica Leclaire (France)
Innovative Knitwear
Jessica is a textile and knitwear designer, graduate from an MA in knit design at the Royal College of Arther. In 2012 she graduated with a a BA in textile design at Chelsea College of Art. Her approach to design is unique and fresh as she incorporates unexpected materials into the structure of her knitted fabrics finding interesting textures and creating innovative design. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Jonathan Rowley (UK) 3D Nylon Samples
Fluid and flexible 3D samples designed by 3D print service Digits2Widgets as a means to demonstrate the possibilities of 3D printing. It’s composed of zillions of tiny interlocked pieces, some offering “shields” for the “exterior surface”, which we think is how the feel of the “fabric” is achieved. This is in spite of the fact that each individual piece is made from hard, 3D printed SLS nylon material. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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JS Shoes (US)
3D Knitted Footwear
JS Shoes lets you customize color and size of the world’s first ever 3D knitted shoes. Specialized machines use a 3D knitting method that produces just enough material needed for each shoe, minimizing waste and aiding in the shoe’s lightweight, breathable design. This method also helps to reduce the company’s carbon footprint and required manpower KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Julia Seregina (Russia) Contemporary Knits
Julia specialises in transforming and reinventing space into new forms through knitting. Working with complex variations in needle size, tension and stitch scale, her contemporary designs flatter and follow a woman's curves. Julia takes inspiration from nature and opposing environmental and urban themes, including nature, art, heritage and environmental harmony.
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Katie Jones (UK)
Playful Aesthetics Serious Ethics
Katie Jones’s brand celebrates traditional and detail intensive processes focusing in Crochet, Knit, Denim and Leather work. It focuses on sustainable practice embracing Katie’s Granny's vision of making something beautiful from nothing and consciously addressing issues of over-consumerism and landfill. The brand creates wearable, artisanal pieces that are big on colour and texture, materials are sourced from designer surplus, factory seconds, textile waste and British made product. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Ka Wa Key (Asia)
Hybridities
KA WA KEY's work explores the relationship between soft masclinity and the identity of Asian men with the roots of their sensuous cultures and aesthetics. His personal design process involves the hybridities in; Eastern and Western clothing, masculine and feminine representations and the traditional textile crafts with the latest fashion technology. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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K. Hermansen (Denmark)
Textile Knits
The inspiration behind Karoline’s collection comes from her fascination with the sea, in particular corals. She wanted to study the free-flowing shapes, textures and vibrant colours and capture the qualities in a variety of methods and mediums. The technical aspect of re-creating these forms through a knitted medium found numerous challenges. From primary research Karoline transformed ordinary materials into complex and unexpected knitted pieces by combining yarns such as elastic and cotton coated Nylon. She was able manipulate machine techniques by creating 3D surfaces and hybrid structures through knotting techniques KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Kniterate (UK)
Digital Knitting Machine
Kniterate is bringing an affordable and compact version of industrial knitting machines to your workshop. It automatically turns your digital designs into knitted garments. The process of designing and making knitwear is so very easy: you can start creating scarves, beanies, ties, ready to be worn and assembling your own dresses, sweaters or even shoes. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Kwangho Lee (South Korea) Knit Lightening
Weave Your Lighting is a project by Korean designer Kwangho Lee that is inspired by memories of his mother's knitting. Her knitted sweaters and gloves remind him of the good days of his childhood. He saw the neat pile of electric wires as yarns and soon decided to knit (weave) his own. Rather than knitting with needles, he developed a new way of weaving the rubber but solid wires into long, scarf-like or brush-like form of lighting.
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Katika (Russia)
Crochet Portraits
The idea of creation came during her pregnancy, when the usual "aggressive" chemical paints and varnishes are prohibited. During this period, generally, women tend to do something "warm" and cozy: knitting or sewing. However, the inner artist demanded creativity. In this dialogue of inner artist and female nature her technique and these works were born.
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Laura Kate Cooper (UK)
New Meterials
From the collaboration with Parisian designer Alexandra Meynier...porcelain, leather cord, wax cotton rope and plexi glass. And then trash transformed into treasure.
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Laura McPherson (UK)
Experimental Knitted Textile
Laura has worked in Italy for International fashion company Missoni as a Knitwear and colour specialist. As a freelance designer her work aims to challenge the perceptions of knit and embraces an experimental approach to materials, yarn and dye techniques. Exploring sculptural form and texture her pieces are regularly used to illustrate future trends in forecasting KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Leutton Postle (UK)
Tribal Knitwear
Abstract illustrations of facial features combined with textured knit, reverse appliquĂŠ, metallic yarn and tinsel. Labour-intensive looks artfully meld textured knit and reverse appliquĂŠ together, often to surprising effect. A knitted face is enlivened with a three dimensional weft of hair that becomes a ponytail. Never afraid to utilise unusual materials in their work, splashes of tinsel and sparks of metallic yarn illuminate the collection. Classic knitwear shapes such as vests, cardigans and v-neck jumpers are subverted and the classic smart skirt suit is re-hashed with intense patterning and metallic tones. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Linkoping University (Sweden) & University of BorĂĽs
Knitted Muscles
Researchers have coated normal fabric with an electroactive material, and in this way given it the ability to actuate in the same way as muscle fibres. The technology opens new opportunities to design "textile muscles" that could, for example, be incorporated into clothes, making it easier for people with disabilities to move. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Lucy Simpson (UK)
Tactile Exploration i.e. Knit + Silicone
The omnipresence of technology, and resulting lack of tactility through digital printing, has pushed her to experiment with unconventional hand-printing techniques and mediums, creating relief-like structures that need to be experienced. She has an experimental approach to design, always looking to work with unexpected materials to create an explosion of tactility and colour. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Linda Awaku (Canada) Knitted Art Jewellery
Graduate of the BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles course at London College of Fashion with an experimental approach to design and affinity for colour, textiles and material innovation. As part of her final major project, the idea of fashioned-objects that grow with the wearer over time was explored drawing inspiration from Western charm jewellery and its variants worldwide. Further research into the concept resulted in a collection of luxurious, knitted art jewellery pieces, which uniquely showcase the idea of building forms through the use of unconventional materials and techniques. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Lindsay Green (US)
Quirky Knits
Designer Lindsay Degen began creating her quirky knits at the age of three when her grandmother gave her a set of knitting needles and taught her how to stitch. In February 2012, Lindsay launched her first full Ready-to-Wear collection that included sweaters, dresses, leggings, and even shoes. After establishing herself as a top designer in the contemporary knitwear scene her brand DEGEN set out to conquer the baby apparel market. in 2013 with babyDEGEN. The line features separates, onesies and accessories made from the softest and most durable fabrics incorporating the same cheeky aesthetic for which the designer has become known. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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London Kaye (US)
Crochet Street Art
London Kaye is a street artist with a unique use of crochet to create art pieces made entirely of yarn. After graduating, London set out to make those around her smile. She realized her life long passion for crochet could be the perfect avenue to achieve this goal. In the years since this discovery, her creative and colorful style has brought smiles to people around the world, and has built an admiring fan base that is excitedly waiting to see what will come off the crochet hook next. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Mandy Besek (US)
Textile based Jewelery
Mandy Besek makes textile-based jewelry, which she sells on Etsy that looks to be inspired by sea creatures, topography and geology. She love big, crazy tribal jewelry that makes you feel like a super hero She focuses her work on vibrant colors and patterns, energetic tribal tones with textural inspiration from the most intricate moss and corals found in nature. All of her fiber necklaces and bracelets are as comfortable and durable as they are detailed. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Mao-Tsen Chang (China)
Structural Knitting
Finding new elements mix up with wool, linen, cotton to innovated new knitwear. A knitwear designer who fascinate in surrealism, and installation to create a 3 dimension, structural knitting. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Miriam Ponsa (Spain)
Contemporary Knitwear
Miriam Ponsa comes from a family with an old textile tradition that goes back to the early nineteenth century. Her collections are imbued with the industrial spirit of that old tradition. She combines the latest techniques (such as dripping and marbling applied to latex) with reminiscences of older skills (craft techniques like basketry, upholstery and fabrics woven on a handloom). KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Nuna Lab (PerĂš)
Responsible Knitwear
Nunalab was born in 2010 out of the shared passion of Ursula Alvarez and Mariela Bazan to fuse design and tradition in a co-creative process with Peruvian artisans: 70 women using up-cycled cotton jersey collected from t-shirt factories around Lima. Working with small strips of fabric, the women crochet, knit, macramĂŠ and stitch modern designs. Nunalab loves to work with recycled materials such as phone wire, cords, shoelaces, and cotton. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Nike (US)
Flyknit Technology
Nike introduced Flyknit in February 2012. After making its first appearance in the Flyknit racer, the technology has been introduced to the training, running, soccer, basketball and lifestyle releases, making Nike one of the most innovative sportswear brands in the world.
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Olivia Rose Havelok (UK) Childhood Knits
This project (SS15 Final Design Collection for the Textile and Knitwear Graduation at the Chealsea College of Art and Design ) is based on a childhood toy of Olivia Rose named ‘Ello’ in which you can build and create anything you can imagine. She chose it as inspiration because it let her realise how much she enjoyed designing and creating and she has great memories and attachment to it. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Patricia Urquiola (Spain)
Biknit x Moroso
Biknit chaise lounge by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso has a boldly woven piece comes in an indoor or outdoor version, perfect for nap time when you want to curl up poolside. The oversized cords are woven onto a contrasting powder coated steel frame. The outdoor version is made with a soft polyethylene down core that’s covered with a polyester/PVC knit and available in three different color combination. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Petra Blaisse (Netherlands)
Knitted Solar Curtain
Petra Blaisse and TextielLab collaborate on a knitted solar curtain. Knitting informed the design and resulted in a texturally rich curtain, interwoven with a dynamic combination of a mineral and an organic textile. The solar cells woven into the curtain further contribute to the texture of the overall design – a one metre long panel of flexible fabric that is able to convert sunlight into energy.
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Rachel John (UK)
Extreme Textile/Knit/Crochet
Contemporary textile artist Rachel John invented the process of mixing multiple strands of yarn with large wooden tools 10 years ago - and has been pushing the boundaries ever since to discover where this new way of crafting can take you. Rachel is designer, maker and inventor behind the extraordinary Extreme Textiles tools and techniques. Rachel’s work is inspiring thousands of designers and home crafters around the world. Rachel - who regularly appears on Ideal World’s Create and Craft TV - demonstrates and teaches her unique and innovative techniques such as Extreme Knitting and Extreme Crochet. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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R. & E. Bouroullec (France)
3D Knitted Fabric x Kvadrat
Three collections of 3D knitted, stretch upholstery fabrics for Kvadrat. Using a double jersey knit, the fabrics look almost quilted with a knitted front layer made from fine melange wool and polyester yarns. The result is a richly textured fabric full of irregular nuances that are sturdy and flexible enough to upholster most any shape. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Rafaela Graspointer (Austria)
Graphic Knitwear
With the conflicting aesthetic of sporty, graphic colour spaces, refined embroidery, ingenious knitting patterns and technical, laser-cut fabrics, the Austrian-born Raffaela Graspointner designed a sparkling collection in an artistic melting pot: she quotes Charles and Ray Eames and in particular the trip that the couple took through India, the colour use of David Hockney, the design language of Joan Mirรณ and the Memphis works of Ettore Sottsass. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Sarah Benning (UK)
Oversized Latex Knits
Latex and Jersey. Combined together in oversized knits teamed with t-shirts and vests. Layered together, sheer layers all brought together with muscle print pieces.
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Sarah Sweeney (UK)
Surrealistic Knitwear
Inspired by Bauhaus, theatre performance, and fancy dress parties, Sarah Sweeney designs mischievously fanciful knitwear that is brimming with style, humour and grace. Her flowing, delicate garments – with their sunny-day-haze colour palette – are a refreshing antidote to the muted, solemn tones of traditional autumn/winter collections; and their surrealist aesthetic comes over all acid-infused circus daydream. You can hear a mad clown laughing maniacally, but the sugary candy floss is too good for you to care KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Sensoree Ger (US)
Mood Sweather & Knitted Brain Sensor x Therapeutic Biomedia SENSOREE – Mood Sweather Began as design research to create wearable technology to augment Sensory Processing Disorder, a condition which ranges from ADHD to autism. SENSOREE is the pioneer in bioresponsive fashion. It's a Therapeutic Biomedia is emotive technology with auditory, visual, and tactile displays to promote extimacy – externalized intimacy – showing how you feel on the inside to the outside world. SENSOREEs designs give the body a voice – self awareness, insight, communication, empathy, and fun! NEUROTiQ is brain animating fashion – a knitted, 3d printed, EEG brain sensor – that maps thoughts and exhibits brain states with color. Within the knit fabric structure, 3d printed neuron globules are embedded with SENSOREE therapeutic bio.media.
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Stone Island (Italy)
Color Changing ÂŤIce KnitÂť
Fashion company Stone Island is redefining the classic knit sweater by infusing it with technology, the end result is the 'Ice Knit' -- a thermal-sensitive sweater that changes color in the cold. The pure wool on the inside of this garment will keep the wearer warm, while the outer layer, made of thermo-sensitive yarn, will provide an aesthetically pleasing experience as it slowly changes color when it's exposed to the cold. Available in "yellowto-orange, emerald-to-military-green and ivory-to-anthracite" the compelling and stylish winter staple is sure to turn some heads this season. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Tracy Krumm (US)
Artsy Knitted Objects
Tracy Krumm is a sculptor, educator and researcher of material studies and textile processes in metal and mixed media. Her work has exhibited internationally in over 175 gallery and museum exhibitions during the past 25 years. Two grants in 2007 and 2008 from the International Folk Art Foundation allowed her to collaborate with nearly 1,000 community participants to complete Big Fiber: Human Tools, a series of four site-specific installations on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Trixie Von Purl (UK)
Ironic Puppets
Trixie Von Purl is the author of "Knit Your Own Kama Sutra" written to spice up playful needle crafters' work with an adventurous, irreverent, and fun guide featuring twelve projects inspired by the Kama Sutra—the classic illustrated handbook of sexual instruction. In keeping with the lively spirit of the classic book of love, each project is given a different setting where a variety of delightful accessories to accompany each scenario can be knitted. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Vanina Yankova (Bulgaria)
Knitted Fabric Manipulation
Knitwear Collection exploring the concept of Migration. Investigation of migratory patterns and behavior found in both animals and humans in their search for survival, evolution or a sense of belonging. Use of dynamic yet harmonic combinations of textures and colors representing the ever changing habitat and varied landscape of modern life. Use of knit, crochet, embroidery, laser-cutting , print and embellishment techniques integrated within one another to create a collection full of joy, movement and light. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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WATG & Central Saint Martins
Wool And The Gang has partnered with iconic university Central Saint Martin's pool of creative talent to launch one of its collections. BA Textile students have been commissioned by Wool and The Gang to submit jewellery design proposals based on the brand’s successful jewellery line Sansa & Khaleesi. Out of thirty submissions WATG’s creative directors, Jade Harwood and Aurelie Popper, have selected nine designs which will be sold WATG website giving young designers their first online commercial experience KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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WATG & Vivienne Westwood
Wool And The Gang has partnered with Vivienne Westwood to co-design a special hat to attract interest about the Climate Revolution topic.
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Xiao Li (China)
Knit + Silicone
Pushing the boundaries of knitwear, Xiao Li is best known for her witty commentary on the current fashion system, using colourful, voluminous shapes, and innovative yarns and textures. She began attracting attention back in 2012, when her structured, bubble gum knitted garments won the Pitti Filati ‘Feel the Yarn’ competition, an award for innovative knitwear. KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Yen Cheng Chang (UK)
Knit Talking Textile
Royal College of Art student Yen Chen Chang has used conductive yarns and threads to create tactile interfaces for electronic products that work by stroking, stretching or squeezing knitted object KIY (Knit It Yourself)
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Yuki Fujusawa (Japan)
Contemporary Knitwear
Sparkling sweaters made of metallic silver and gold-dipped foil knit fabric Statement knits to stand out from the crowd
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