Library
Mostly hyperlinks to digital resources about the intersection of mathematics and fiber arts.- Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture by Sadie Plant
- A must read for anyone interested in the shared history of women's work, weaving, computer science, and the internet.
- A loveletter to Ada Lovelace, Enchantress of Numbers and Princess of Parallelograms.
- Ada K. Dietz Algebraic Expressions in Handwoven Textiles
- Incredible monograph in which she details her technique for deriving aesthetically pleasing woven designs from algebraic expressions.
- Ralph Grisworld on Fractals in Weaving
- Creating interesting textiles from fractal sequences.
- His website is full of free patterns!
- Ralph Griswold on Network Drafting for Double Weave
- Applying network draft techniques to double weave creates incredible results.
- Geodata Weaving
- Does a great job demonstrating how fiber arts can embody any information.
- Perpetua Digital Weaving Project
- Example of digital weaving as a generative art.
- Weaving to Code, Coding to Weave
- Page for an artistic workshop about the shared history between weaving and coding. It links a few interesting reads.
- mathgrrl - yarncraft
- Fun online tools for computational fiber artists that really highlights the intersection between fiber arts, coding, and math.
- Highlight is definitely her 'matrixweaver.'
- ""It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving" by Lea Albaugh
- Great YouTube video that explains the connection between weave structures and matrix multiplication.
- She also details the basics of network drafting.
- The Home of Mathematical Knitting
- Great resource for knitting patterns as well as just appreciating how much beautiful mathematics can be represented and made tangibly accessible by the fiber arts!
- Cellular Automata Rule 73 Scarf Pattern on Ravelry
- Ravelry is a site where fiber artists share patterns for their designs. This one is meant for a knitting machine and is based on an elementary cellular automata.
- Mathematical Crochet
- Cute blog with some nice crocheted embeddings of various topological surfaces.
- Planned Pooling
- Nice website for visualizing planned pooling, a knitting/crochet technique in which multi-colored yarn with a repeating sequence of colors can be intentionally worked to create interesting patterns via modular arithmetic.
- ICERM - Computational Textile Working Group Archive
- Tons of lecture videos available on the mathematics of knitting and other textile arts.
- ICERM - Illustrating Mathematics
- Contians several exampels of mathematical ideas represented in fiber arts.
- Topological Dunce Hat
- A YouTube video demonstrating a topological dunce hat made from cloth and two zippers.
- Craftinatorics
- An amazing personal website dedicated to the mathematics of knitting and quilting.
- Laverne Waddington's Backstrap Weaving Gallery
- Blog about backstrap weaving. I've linked her gallery to show some examples of the beautiful geometries modern weavers are able to create with traditional technologies and techniques.