prosthetic knowledge

Esbat Stitches by Vaka Valo 

A series of digital embroidery pieces mounted on canvas which look like patterned captures of distorted video.

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Stitch ‘n’ Glitch 

Open source software to turn images into glitches, to then form a printable template for embroidery - created with Processing by Andrew Whealy :

Stitch’n’Glitch explores the aesthetic possibilities of combining the random “glitch” technique with the laborious practice of cross stitch embroidery.

Available as an executable file for Windows, Linux and Mac, you can find out more about the project here

Also, Andrew has a Tumblr blog here

CEEFAX Tapestry 

A textile tribute to the information service by Aaron Merrigan:

For the past 38 years BBC Ceefax Pages have provided the nation with a constant stream of accessible, reliable and dedicated news. With the final switch over from analogue to digital television, the iconic service will cease to exist.

100×75cm (4:3 TV ratio)
Cross stitch + machine embroidery

Exhibited it D&AD New Blood 2012 

Link

[PS - CEEFAX was the BBC’s version of Teletext]

Glitch Embroidery 

Project found at 割かとナイスコミュニケート which (appears) to create clothing with embroidered logos, whose sewing machine files were corrupted to output glitched stitching.

”Glitch Embroidery” incorporates ‘Glitched’ (Binary Hacked) embroidery data for a sewing machine.

You can see more examples (and GIFs) here

90º - Typography Book 

Handmade book by Iwona Przybyla features typographic alphabet with letters presented in 3D using thread and stitching:

Kąt 90 stopni (90 degrees) is a book presenting a font style bearing the same name, designed in such a way that each of its letters can be displayed in a three-dimensional space. The letters are made of a string threaded through two sheets of paper perpendicular to each other. All twenty-six letters of the English alphabet have been created using this font style and put together to create this one-off book design.

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Crafted Worlds 

Art exhibition from 2011 by Per Fhager featuring stills from classic video games recreated using embroidery:

Per´s choice of material, technique and color gives us a perfect example of how traditional crafts can receive a new expression and context in the modern world. The embroideries differs largely in texture, technique and color density, these differences are important in the process of producing the needle point works. The handmade pictures arrives from video game stills where composition, narrative and memory plays its role. 

More photos and info can be found here

Zelda map cross stitch by Cross-stitch ninja via -clu-

Cross stitch of the map from the Game Boy Color version of Zelda - Link’s awakening.
Finished size 24,5 x 22 cm (≈9,6 x 8,6 inches), 160 x 144 pixels.

Part of a Flickr set which includes other interesting cross stitch embroidery, from pixel art to rioting.

Evelin Kasikov [site]

CMYK embroidery is a hand-made printing process, based on computer generated halftone screens. Images are halftoned according to conventional screen angles: Cyan 105, Magenta 75, Yellow 90 and Black 45. Dot screens are the transformed into cross-stitch screens, printed on paper and marked for embroidery. More here…

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