cir.cuit knit process

cir.cuit knit

hack series 0.1

today was a pretty fun day with the matador knitting machine. i was able to start and create different techniques of laying down the yarn in order to create a knit. in the first image i cut out strips of yarn and laid them down one row at a time. i found though that once i took the knit off of the latch needles the stitches would fall a part when tugged on. image two starts to show one of my solutions to catch the stitches at the start off point of the knit. in this experiment i started playing with a combination of yarn and elastic thread. in addition i picked up a spool of 34 gauge bead wire in hopes that i could try to knit with it. the wire ended up breaking while i slide the cam across the needle bed. my hopes where to some how to try and lay out a potential strain of circuits. in the last image i tried using piano wire to start and end the knitting project off. i was not successful in finishing off the knit....hopefully tomorrow will bring some more play time.

hack 0.1AB| trying to figure out how to secure edges so knit does not fall apart

hack 0.1A | anchor at bottom to hold knit together

hack 0.1| single strips of yarn

attempt one at knitting

strain of information

matador stitch 164

I was flipping through the pages of the book: Machine and Hand Knitting Pattern Design by Kathleen Kinder yesterday when i came across an ad for the Bond Knitting machine. I googled the name and to my surprise i found a website that had a series of utub videos explaining how to use the Bond knitting machine. the machines technique(s) are very similar to the matador knitting machine i happened to come across a few weekends ago. After watching the videos over and over again i decided to test out my machine. currently i am still trying to figure out how it works and have come to the realization that the machine i have needs some modifications or a kit of parts to work the way it may have been intended to, which i will be trying to research and develop in the next few days. this evening i will continue to play around with elastic thread and yarn in hopes that i will figure out some more characteristics of the machine, as vance mentioned continue to develop my relationship with the machine. I am really looking forward to the potentials that the machine has to offer . although i am not sure what the outcome(s) will be i am very excited to see what manifests.

over the past few days of my research i have been discussing my progress with my grandmother and father. i was given a few suggestions about calling knitting clubs and searching the web but i had little success. i was told more then once that the knitting machine was a lost form of art and it would be hard to figure out how to hack it. did not really pay attention too much to those comments but instead i feel i will be able to re-establish the art form and morph it into some new form. Anyways today I received a phone call with someone on the other end who had found information about the matador - my grandmas and fathers interest in the subject led me to a new sources of knowledge!!! next week i will be receiving a manual on the matador knitting machine all the way from Australia where the machine originates from. the machine is believed to have been crafted in the early 1950's. wow is that not amazing!!!! thank you guys!!!

click here for bond videos

some influential books

matador knitting machine : first attempts at the hack

through discussion with my crit and colleagues i have decided to try and hack the Matador Knitting machine, which i found a few weekends ago in Morris, MB. upon purchase of the machine i was given the good old smile and the encouragement on trying to figure out how it works. this weekend has primarily been spent researching the "matador" knitting machine....i think. after spending half a day at the library and looking through books that dated back as far as 1857....no lie i am still a little puzzled as to what i picked up in Morris. i know however that is has something to do with knitting.

so i decided to go to trusty old kmart and pick up a $4.99 ball of yarn and some needles. it was amazing as to how fast i picked up my once upon a time obsession with knitting - lasting for 3 years of my childhood. i finished my first row of knitting with my $4.99 ball of warn in about 15 min first crack at it....but then i could not remember how to start the second row. i once knew how to do it, so i kept trying attempt after attempt until i got it. i currently have about 25 rows done that approximately took me 5hrs....and the once again obsession is back.

i decided at that point to keep sifting through the books i came across in the library. i could not and currently can not keep my eyes off of the pages. the pages are compiled with new worlds of exploration. It is as if the knowledge has been waiting there for me to become obsessed with.

in addition to library books, past down knowledge of knitting, and internet i have also started to develop a series of drawings in order to increase my understanding of the matador. my first stage of the drawing consists of a layout of the matadors main parts. tomorrow i will continue trying to figure out how the movable parts fit together to create the function of the machine....which is still unkown.


few definite things so far:

1. the Matador machine is a straight bar frame
2. it is a lot more manual then i first believed.
3. click here
   

matador knitting machine : first attempts at the hack

flocking | technical or natural

recipe for ob.ses.sion

recipe for ob.ses.sion:
1. self:

• follow your instincts
• you can get away with it
• whose reality
  
• "overall patterns elude easy perception" -unknown
• do not look in the rear-view mirror to see the present
• mixx it up with event
• what do you see/what do you want to see
• don't step back
  

2. combine with interests:

• pneumatic apparatus
  
• entropy
• opposing worlds
  
• fish
• point of reality or being
  
• existence through the other
• gestures of space
• flocking/movement
• exploration
• unlocking realities
• thought execution
  
• collection

3. current ob.ses.sive state:

• JUXTAPOSITION OF SPACE
• “My obsessions are the realities that are created through the juxtaposition of space”. Existence is created through the dialogue between elements of opposing space demanding a new understanding of one another. Thus resulting in a new configuration of imagination, which formulates into new space | worlds. Through exploration I would like to find out what potential realities are housed between these juxtaposition of space.
  

device selections

device selections:
-1581 cosmojetz
-matador knitting machine
-ice fishing tip up

pneumatic apparatus 2007