In lockdown, thousands of people began making their own clothes for the first time – a movement born of creativity and conscious consumptionMy foot hovers nervously over the sewing machine pedal. I am cautiously working my way through a sew-it-yourself…
“Using weird software to make weird and soft things”
Huw Messie makes animated embroidery: Consistent Survey, Tensioned Attaching, Rhythms of Winding the Patterns are Made, Discrete Converter, The Boxer, Your Plane. More on his process here.
PieceWork Magazine
PieceWork Magazine “celebrates the rich history of needlework and makers from around the globe”. There is a lot of content online. Articles include:
* Not Just an Instruction Leaflet: the “social life” of a knitting pattern, by Ingrid Murnane
* The Ca…