Knot Hard: Accessible Textile Data Visualization with a Circular Knitting Machine

“That is such a cool idea, but I’m not crafty at all.” I hear this a lot when I mention that I run a Textile Makerspace, and teach Data Visualization with Textiles. It’s easy to see where people are coming from: temperature blankets, covid scarves, quilted topographic maps, embroidered Greek epic poetry — the data ...