kniterate notes 9

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts about the Material Programming Project. We are developing malleable knitting software for the Kniterate, a semi-industrial knitting machine. This post is about Auttoman, a new tool for structural knitting. The first post, on the Knitout project, is available here. programmable material structure using Auttoman! Annoyingly bad photo of B’s ottoman sample made with the Kniterate software (back, dark blue + yellow) and the equivalent sample made using Auttoman (front, bright blue + bright green). See how the fabric bulges in the middle where the elastic isn’t knit on the front bed. B and I have been back at Chelsea this past week playing around with the Kniterate. There’s a sample that B has on the wall that I’ve always loved, which is made with a dense yellow elastic on one side, and a ridged, deep-blue mohair on the back. It has this amazing structure, and behaves in a really interesting way when you stretch it – the parallel columns of…