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#machineknitting

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Stéphanie Vilayphiou

#Fabricademy bootcamp 2025
May 19→25

Don't miss this year's bootcamp in Brussels to encounter international fellows in the field of #textile, #engineering and #biology.

I am co-organizing it through the #fablab @GreenFabric and the #fabricademy team (@fabtextiles ).

A great opportunity to test Fabricademy themes and way of working through intense hands-on workshops. It will cover #biomaterials with #mycelium #fungi, #modulardesign, #machineknitting with the #kniterate machine, using the #opensourcehardware machines that we built, #etextile with thermochromic inks.

Don't miss also the #MakerFaire on the following week-end (May 26-27) with the Fabricademy exhibition of final projects and a workshop on #softrobotics.

More info on bootcamp2025.textile-academy.o.

Boosts are more than welcome!

A view of Green Fabric textile fablab with people working on their projects.
A picture of the Kniterate semi-industrial knitting machine.
A photo of an open-source dry felting machine built at Green Fabric
Detailed schedule of the event. Please visit the website for text-to-speech.
#fiberarts#innovation#research
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ink and yarn

Photo-memories tells me that I made this wrap four years ago today. Unfortunately it didn't felt as neatly or as evenly as I would have liked... but making it sure was a Learning Experience.

The pattern is "Puppies" by Svetlana Rogatykh and is available for free on Ravelry:
ravelry.com/patterns/library/p

And I wrote about the whole thing here: knittingpirate.com/2021/04/01/

The Puppies wrap folded over at the bottom so that the front and back sides are visible in the same picture. It is knit in two colours of laceweight yarn, an off-white and a steel gray. Stylized dogs dance in the middle of fancy patterns, almost like medieval illumination.
#Knitting#KnittingPirate#MachineKnitting
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Stéphanie Vilayphiou

strip-p-ed out

A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
class.textile-academy.org/2024

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?

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Stéphanie Vilayphiou

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ). 💜

Knitted piece in black and white. The text "my Mother is a computer" is written on it.
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ink and yarn

Why not, maybe I'll just put the poll here too :) I'm planning my second hybrid sock-knitting project, where I'll make the colourwork legs on the machine and then enjoy the mindless mile of stockinette down the heels and feet (okay, it's really only about 1/8 mile). I've done this once before and really liked the result:
sunny.garden/@emery/1130343175

I found the diamonds pattern on a picture of a sock somewhere and charted it up, then started playing with the pixels and came up with several variations. And while I do have a favourite, I like them all and am curious to see which YOU like best!

For some reason Mastodon doesn't allow both image attachments and polls on the same post, so I'll put the actual poll in a reply. 🤷

Option 1: double diamonds. Larger diamond shapes with lines extending from top and bottom alternate with smaller diamonds that sit between the lines.
Option 2: split diamonds. The same general diamond shape as option 1, but with an extra line of blue splitting each set of diamonds open.
Option 3: connected diamonds. The lines from option 1 are extended to touch the smaller diamonds.
Option 4: stripy diamonds. The colors from option 1 are reversed in every other row, which gives the effect of a row of diamonds (silver on blue) alternating with a row of X shapes (blue on silver).
#knitting#SockKnitting#MachineKnitting
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