Thesis

This thesis delivers a novel digital fabrication pipeline for knitted textiles, addressing the complexities and interdisciplinary nature of digitizing the textile-making process.

Textile producing processes are of the oldest forms of human computation.

Through this exploration, I was able to identify opportunities to understand textiles as a technology and create a fabrication pipeline that addresses the various scales of working with knitted textile materials, using digital computation. The pipeline is an expression of compounding data architectures. I've created a tiered system that encodes various scales of knitted textile materials by using a combination of preexisting software tools and my own intervening tools.