The elements of my research - historical kntting patterns from Fair Isle and Shetland, the rules of Conway's Game of Life and swatches of my first attempts to combine the two in machine knitted fabric. At the centre top of this image is my recreation of the earliest known piece of colourwork knitting from Shetland - the Gunnister Man purse from around 1790CE - with Game of Life motifs.
The elements of my research - historical kntting patterns from Fair Isle and Shetland, the rules of Conway's Game of Life and swatches of my first attempts to combine the two in machine knitted fabric. At the centre top of this image is my recreation of the earliest known piece of colourwork knitting from Shetland - the Gunnister Man purse from around 1790CE - with Game of Life motifs.