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n the hottest day ever recorded in Britain,
we bought a scarf. Not just any scarf though:
this one has a quotation from Ada Lovelace
encoded into it. Creator Sam Meech is an artist
based in England’s creatively fecund North West,
who among many other endeavours has made
a small range of knitwear with techy messages knitted into them.
As Sam puts it, “Binary scarves are a series of knitwear informed
by the ASCII text system of encoding text to binary. Each design
contains a quote related to either computers, binary, patterns,
digital art, or repetition. The designs are presented within the
constraints of a standard 24-stitch punchcard pattern repeat. The
scarves have been produced in collaboration with a factory in
Manchester, ironically named Unique Knitwear.”
Our scarf carries the message, “The Analytical Engine weaves
algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers
and leaves. Ada Lovelace, 1843”.O
By Sam Meech smeech.co.ukBinary scarf
Right
We love the
symmetry of the
Jacquard loom
(which is close
enough to a knitting
machine) coming
back to computing