http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fiberarts Posts tagged with 'fiberarts' at MetaFilter. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:01:51 -0800 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:01:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/109187/Knotty%2DProblems Science through yarn: <a href="http://woollythoughts.com/">Wooly Thoughts</a>. <a href="http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html">The Home of Mathematical Knitting</a>, including <a href="http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mkkb.html">knitted klein bottles</a> and <a href="http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mkmisc.html#hp">hyperbolic planes</a>. <a href="http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/">The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/48438/FABRIC-BRAINZ">previously</a>)</small>. <a href="http://bajada.typepad.com/everybody_wants_a_rock/2005/03/calling_all_gee.html">Much</a>, <a href="http://intertwined.dreamwidth.org/">much</a>, <a href="http://www.curbly.com/Tadiera/posts/756-mathematics-and-knitting">more</a> on knitting, crochet and quilting used to visualize complex theories in topology, probability, chaos and fractals. Inspired in part by the <a href="http://acmescience.com/category/shows/scc-shows">Strong Connected Components podcast</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/106252/Math-interview-podcast">Previously</a>)</small>, which has featured interviews with mathematicians and knitters <a href="http://acmescience.com/shows/scc-shows/685">Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer, founders of the aforementioned Wooly Thoughts</a>, and <a href="http://acmescience.com/shows/scc-shows/678">Daina Taimina</a>, author of "Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes". <small>(Tangentially elated: <a href="http://nerdigurumi.com/">Nerdigurumi</a>, geek culture crochet patterns.)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109187 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:01:51 -0800 crochet fiberarts knitting mathematics maths science topology wool Bora Horza Gobuchul http://www.metafilter.com/48805/Intimate%2Dreading%2Dcorset%2Dbooks <a href="http://www.fiberarts.com/back_issues/01_06/stone_gallery.asp">Corset books</a> - recycle your underwear as art? To explore issues related to women's body image, <a href="http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/womenartists/special_collections/stone/stone_1_desc.html ">Tamar Stone</a> creates books from "corrective" women's undergarments. <small>(via <a href="http://www.housewife.splinder.com/">art for housewives</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48805 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:38:50 -0800 art books clothing fiberarts underwear women madamjujujive http://www.metafilter.com/44222/Mathematical%2DKnitting <a href="http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/~smbelcas/math-knit.html">Mathematical Knitting.</a> Knit your own <a href="http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/~smbelcas/mkmb.html">Mobius bands </a>and <a href="http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/~smbelcas/mkkb.html">Klein bottles</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44222 Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:08:44 -0800 batshitinsane fiberarts knitting math greasy_skillet