For Spring and Summer 2026, we recieved a UAL Teaching and Learning grant to run a series of interactive student-facing workshops. These support students to develop their own tools for generating knitted textiles based on the knitout interchange format to interface to the Smart Textiles Lab Kniterate machine.
We are particularly interested in helping students to explore the idiosyncrasies of machine knitting through the tools they create, a form of learning that encompasses both the material (dealing with yarns, tensions, stitches) and the abstract (the representation of knit through software).