2025

On Weaving, Anni Albers (1965)

General book on the history of weaving, offers a comprehension of the importance of threads as a method of communication, as social markers and as a way to count and tell. It also offers an extensive amount of graphics and visual representation of weaving techniques (that can also be applied to knitting), as well as a very complete documentation of the art of weaving fabrics in different parts of the world.

Keywords:
machinery
fibers and their textures
social impact of fabrics
production scale
transmission of meaning

Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a renown textile artist who based her whole practice on textile design and weaving. She studied at Bauhaus and later on taught at the Black Montain College in North Carolina.

Whip Your Hobby into Shape: Knitting, Feminism and Construction of Gender, Alla Myzelev (2009)

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This article touches upon the disruptivity of choosing the hard path when it comes to consumption, illustrated here by the art of knitting. The authors talks about the amount of creativity (and if it can be measured ?) when it comes to pattern writing and reproducing, the notational effort that comes into it, and later the distribution of the non-product.

Keywords:
knitting
mysogyny
process
craft
pattern writing
labour

Reflective Conversation with Materials, Interview of Donald Schön by John Bennett

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Keywords;
design process
self-directed research
expectations VS outcome
practice

My Website is Shifting House, Laurel Schwulst (2018)

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This text covers the different ways we can see a website outside of its first utilitarian state. Through metaphors, the authors broaden the definiton of the website for it to become a practice tool rather than a finite goal to reach. It really helped me envision the web as a practice place, and brought back some of the poetic aspect of webmaking.

Keywords:
webmaking
crafting
web experimentations
metaphors
website as a space
online presence
self-definition

2024

All Problems of Notation will be solved by the masses, Simon Yuil

2023

2022