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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    E-Textile Tailor Shop by KOBAKANT
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Since 2020, Hannah is guest professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Master's program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin

    From 2013-2015 Mika was a guest professor at the eLab at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

    From July - December 2013 Hannah was a researcher at the UdK's Design Research Lab

    From 2010-2012 Mika was a guest researcher in the Smart Textiles Design Lab at The Swedish School of Textiles

    From 2009 - 2011 Hannah was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group led by Leah Buechley


    In 2009 Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab


    Between 2003 - 2009 Hannah and Mika were both students at Interface Cultures
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
    Technique

    Crochet

    You can find a great selection of basic crochet tutorials online. We taught ourselves how to crochet by watching YouTube tutorial videos.

    One of our first attempts at crochet

    Here are some of our favorite video tutorials

    Dude teaching how to crochet – very cool! Occasionally he uses “bad words” to express his feeling toward stupid yarns… I like that.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVBcepuY9s

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koz0gsirOd0

    For simple stitch variations, these series are short, simple and clear

    Crochet Tutorial – Single Crochet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxvOjKcbQM

    Crochet Tutorial – Double Crochet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVyO8UuW1Qo

    Crochet Tutorial – Treble Crochet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrkusCIfuEU

    Crochet Tutorial – Bobbles Crochet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NOC38C2O3k

    Crochet Tutorial -Broomstick Lace Crochet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wzZJ5hj2w

    Crochet Tutorial -Puff Stitch
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pHAP5R4PY&NR=1

    Crochet-How to Crochet a Circle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eayNzAgZMUY

    A nice crochet resource website

    http://www.purlbee.com/
    http://www.castoff.info/

    1 Comment so far

    1. shreya mehta on October 16th, 2012

      sir
      we are in need of a crochet machine to lessen our work and meet the increasing demand of our products….. please help us in doing that…. if you insist we can send some of the pictures of our products…..

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