8.12.09
Brother KH860 + me
This blog is a record of my work with the brother KH860 knitting machine. I bought the machine a month ago from e-bay, and began testing the range of knitted surfaces I could create.The Brother Punch card knitting machines built in the 1980’s operate similarly to the mechanised loom, by constructing fabric from a set of programmable instructions. They use punch cards to move needles into the working position, this coding to knit (no punched hole = Position B), or omit the Knit (punched hole = Position D), links the machine's process to the binary circuitry of computers (on or off).
A few questions to explore:
What causes the knit to deform, unravel...
How do we isolate this noise in the system?
What is a knitted Glitch?
Can the next knitted piece include these errors, how might they be reinterpreted creatively?
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