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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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