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Crocheted skeleton with organs
Artist Shanell Papp has a project called "Bawdy," which is about bodies and textiles. The centerpiece is "Lab," a yarn skeleton with a complete set of organs. Lab (skeleton) (via Making Light)
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Bollard transformed into yarn Dalek
Kevyn Jacobs snapped this knit (crocheted?) Dalek bollard cover at the corner of West Magnolia Street and Commercial Street in Bellingham, WA. No clue as to the manufacturer of said confection, but...
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Knitting as computation
K2G2 -- a wiki for "krafty knerds and geek girls" -- has a marvellous series of posts about "Computational Craft" through which traditional crafting practices, like knitting, are analyzed through the...
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Dinosauric knit mitts
These dinosauric knit mittens were made by Etsy seller HotScones, who ships from Australia. $43.61 (US) a pair, plus shipping. HotScones (via Laughing Squid)
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Knitted anatomical dissections: readymade or DIY
We've featured the lovely knitted dissections of Aknitomy before (previously), but its proprietor, Emily Stoneking, keeps on turning out whimisico-scientific knitted fancies that please the eye and...
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A scarf woven from Jay Lake's genome
Here's a scarf woven from data representing the genome of talented sf writer and good guy Jay Lake, who died of cancer this week. Last summer, Jay's friends raised funds to sequence his genome in the...
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Kickstarting a US show of pieces by Japanese weavers with autism
Gabrielle writes, "Saori weaving is the perfect craft for happy mutants. You can't make a mistake and all variation is considered part of the personal expression." (more…)
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Kickstarting custom cellular automata scarves
Noah writes, "Fabienne Serriere, a hacker and machine knitting enthusiast, is running a Kickstarter currently for provably unique mathematical scarves modeled off of cellular automaton and made of...
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Cthulhu amigurumis
Barcelona's Mari Axel creates many delightful crocheted and knit lovelies, including a whole range of Cthuloid amigurumi: Cthulhu, Steampunk Cthulhu, Minion Cthulhu; Multicolored Pastel Cthulhus, and...
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Amazing fan-made Wonder Woman sweater pattern to download and knit
Natalie Bursztyn created this fantastic pattern for a Wonder Woman sweater, which she has prototyped and modelled herself. (more…)
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Embroidered toast
Slovakian artist Terézia Krnáčová produced a series of toast slices called "Everyday Bread," in which each slice is embroidered in a different pattern. (more…)
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Pac-Man suits
They're a mere $110 from Opposuits, which is a positive bargain, espeically when you contemplate just how much daily use you can get out of it. (via Crazy Abalone)
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Knit facehugger masks
These facehugger facewarmers come from Brooklyn weird textiles queen Knitrocious (previously). They're made to order from acrylic yarn and cost $150 each: "Legs have clips so that they can be worn...
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Designer makes clothes out of German transit upholstery fabric, rides trains
Public transit upholstery is a marvel of stain-resistance, long-wearing durability and bizarre abstract patterns meant to deny the shifting conventions of fashion: all these make it (semi-)perfect for...
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Self-healing fabrics inspired by squid teeth
Penn State researchers funded by the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research have posted video showing their progress on "self-healing" textiles that use proteins similar to those found...
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The origin of the Compubody Sock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQvtep54E8&feature=youtu.be Beck Stern writes, "In 2008 I knitted a woolen cozy for my computer, and now it belongs to the internet. This new video is its story."...
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The Misfits dress
Skulls on the front, wordmark on the back: $38, pink, green or purple, sizes 3-10. (via Punk Fashion)
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NASA's new "space fabric"
This is NASA's new "space fabric" in development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (more…)
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Map of local embroidery techniques in Pakistan
As posted to twitter by Saima Mir, and likely sourced from Generation; but who's the artist?
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The Tentacuddle: a cthulhoid slanket
The Tentacuddle is another of Thinkgeek's not-April-Fools products launched on Apr 1 but seriously for realsies; it's $60, acrylic, 40"^2 plus five two-foot-long besuckered tentacles whose terminal...
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Cross-stitched classic Mac control panel
This striking and immaculate cross-stitched Macintosh control panel is by Glenda Adams: "This took nearly 6 months, working on and off- so many little pixels to stitch."...
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An embroidered computer whose circuits are ornate, golden thread
Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak's Embroidered Computer uses historic gold embroidery materials to create relays ("similar to early computers before the invention of semiconductors") that can do...
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Make: an adorable crocheted AT-AT Walker
You can make your own perfectly adorable chibi crocheted AT-AT Walker with this $5.90 pattern from Polish textile artist Kamila Krawczyk, AKA Krawka. (via The Stars My Destination)
View ArticleInaugural Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship title goes to Japan's Giga...
The inaugural Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship were an unqualified success, with competitors from the US, Russia, Japan and beyond converging on Joensuu, Finland to thrash and knit: competitors...
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Color-changing shirt tracks your heath and monitors the environment
Remember Generra Hypercolor tshirts that would change color in response to heat? Tufts University engineers have created a similar fabric integrated with a variety of chemical sensors. For example,...
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This 2,000-year-old Roman dildo is probably… not that
Last month, Newcastle University archaeologists suggested that this rather phallic object above is a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo. The 16 cm object—dug up at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in...
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Hand-knit superhero costumes gallery show in Knoxville
Mark Newport, whose hand-knit superhero costumes have been mentioned here before, has a gallery show at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's Ewing Gallery. I really love these pieces — they'd...
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The cool new thing with tweens? Sewing.
Fourteen-year-old Luna Ito-Fisher started making her own clothes and accessories when she was nine, after attending a friend's birthday party at a sewing studio in LA. "I remember at the beginning,...
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Jacquard looms: Videos demonstrating early computer programs
Invented in 1801, Jacquard looms are really an add-on to already existent mechanical loom systems, which allowed those looms to create patterns more complex and intricate than anything that had been...
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Knit scarf with a hidden TARDIS
From Brilliant Knitwit's Tumblr, an optical illusion TARDIS scarf, knitted as a gift. From the front, it just appears to be a striped scarf; at the right angle, the hidden TARDIS heaves into view....
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