Machine Knit Identity-Preserving Balaclava
Photo: Becky Stern
About two years ago I invented a way to keep my face warm without hiding it with my Identity Preserving Balaclava. Now I’ve updated my original idea, with the help of Becky Stern‘s hacked Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine, and made this Machine Knit Idenity-Preserving Balaclava.
The balaclava is knit from cotton yarn and the design is from a bitmap file, in which pictures of my head from every angle were photoshopped together into a single rectangular image. I used the same images to make the bitmap file as I did for the original ID-Preserving Balaclava project.
Several different versions of the design were knit before I had one that I was happy with.
And this is what it looks like from the back.
Photo: Becky Stern
Press:
CRAFT and MAKE Magazine
Core77 Design Magazine
Neatorama
The Daily What
The Creators Project
The Laughing Squid
Gizmodo (called it a Bitmap Balaclava! I think I’ll use that.)