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Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)
I'd be surprised/impressed if the knitting machine itself was a DIY project.

I know this is art, but to be overly reductive, it's the same as buying your electricity from a wind farm and using it to power your knitting machine.

I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.

Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?

Take a look at the next T-shirt you put on. Or socks.
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Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
Maybe the closest match to the current thread:

Tempus Nectit Knitting Clock - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882735 - May 2023 (10 comments)

Other related links (did I miss any?):

Consider Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143199 - May 2025 (143 comments)

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614 - April 2025 (20 comments)

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024540 - Feb 2025 (25 comments)

Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828754 - June 2024 (17 comments)

Unraveling the physics of knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683130 - June 2024 (15 comments)

Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307089 - May 2024 (29 comments)

A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613247 - April 2023 (78 comments)

Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897255 - Sept 2022 (19 comments)

Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423963 - June 2021 (6 comments)

Is Knitting Turing Complete? (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715534 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950589 - May 2019 (62 comments)

Woven silk prayer book created with punch cards on Jacquard loom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252561 - Feb 2019 (1 comment)

Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153 - March 2018 (36 comments)

Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538038 - June 2017 (12 comments)

A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143482 - July 2016 (20 comments)

Nintendo Almost Made a Knitting Add-On for NES - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472337 - Sept 2012 (22 comments)

Knitting as programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986758 - May 2012 (12 comments)

Simulated Knitting in Python -

If you happen to be there and like this sort of thing, the lace museum in Calais is definitely worth a visit:

Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/

It's been about fifteen years since I visited, but they had a big section on the evolution of the techniques. It started from hand lace making, then progressed through periods of different looms. From memory, I'm pretty sure they had a punch-card loom about 200 years old, that was actually operating while I was there.

Knitting is more like executing a program. Designing a knitting pattern is programming.
I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.
Is this something that can be seen in person?
This is delightfully weird, I love projects like this.
I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track. different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders
Beautiful work.

As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P

I'm surprised it doesn't also operate at the intersection of art and technology.
boundary betweeen public and private space is an elementary object of social studies in general
International Art English is a well-documented, and mercilessly mocked (and deservedly so!) phenomenon, which thrusts the creator's image of self into the spotlight and questions assumptions about their ability for self-expression at the intersection of rational thought and plain language, through pervasive use of meaningless and tortured constructions, abject puffery, and run-on sentences.
This is a great idea .. I wonder if it can be adapted to using recycled plastic threads, so that a fleet of these could be deployed into the ocean to recover plastics, turn them into nets, and use those nets to .. recover more plastic?

If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.

Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!

I’d like to see a video of the full process.

The reason is that the scarves in the online shop look very tight and possibly created by something else. There is nothing that would prevent the seller from doing this legitimately if that is the case, because Wind Knitting Factory may just be the brand.

I’d like to think the scarves in their online shop are fully knitted by the wind, though.

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The page for buying a machine doesn't work :(

Not that i could likely afford it.

Now we just need wind spinning, wind carding, wind shearing, and wind husbandry. Lots of vertical opportunity.