Knitting and Crochet as Experiment: Exploring Social and Material Practices of Computation and Craft

Kenning, G; Law, J

Knitting and Crochet as Experiment: Exploring Social and Material Practices of Computation and Craft

Kenning, G

Law, J

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Publisher:: Bloomsbury (UK)
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: The Craft Economy: Making, Materiality and Meaning, 2018, 2 pp. 187 - 197
Issue Date:: 2018

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dc.contributor.author	Kenning, G https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3379-9088	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Law, J	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Luckman, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Craft Economy: Making, Materiality and Meaning, 2018, 2 pp. 187 - 197	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781474259569	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123146
dc.description.abstract	Hand crafted textile production has a close but often tense relationship with technology and mechanisation. Needles, hooks, and frames have been used to extend techniques that had developed from knotting and hand weaving. Industrialised textile production transformed hand crafted processes and techniques by formalising repeatable actions as logical expressions thus enabling them to be performed by machines. These algorithmic and iterative processes were central to the development of the mechanised punch-card operations of the weaving looms of Jacques de Vaucanson, and their subsequent refinement by Joseph-Marie Jacquard (Williams1991). Charles Babbage and Herman Hollerith went on to adapt such approaches in the creation of computing machines, developments which shaped the social and material practices of both hand crafted textiles and computational technologies.	en_US
dc.publisher	Bloomsbury (UK)	en_US
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dc.title	Knitting and Crochet as Experiment: Exploring Social and Material Practices of Computation and Craft	en_US
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Abstract:

Hand crafted textile production has a close but often tense relationship with technology and mechanisation. Needles, hooks, and frames have been used to extend techniques that had developed from knotting and hand weaving. Industrialised textile production transformed hand crafted processes and techniques by formalising repeatable actions as logical expressions thus enabling them to be performed by machines. These algorithmic and iterative processes were central to the development of the mechanised punch-card operations of the weaving looms of Jacques de Vaucanson, and their subsequent refinement by Joseph-Marie Jacquard (Williams1991). Charles Babbage and Herman Hollerith went on to adapt such approaches in the creation of computing machines, developments which shaped the social and material practices of both hand crafted textiles and computational technologies.

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