Disrupting patterns

Disrupting patterns: Exploring cable knitting through intarsia and fair isle designs.

This work explores cable knitting in combination with fair isle and intarsia designs with the motivation to disrupt the cable structure. The purpose was to give a bold, powerful expression to the cable, compared to the calm, classic look of Aran sweaters, and in that way give a new perspective on tradition. The project was made by hand on a hand knitting machine for a knitwear design context. The intention was to bring back the value of the textile by focusing on the craftmanship. It was also made as a comment on fast fashion by disrupting the methods of working in the industry. The result is a knit design collection which displays three methods of working with cables. Traditional cable technique, moving stitches and giant cables. These methods are combined with intarsia and fair isle patterns. The focus of Disrupting patterns lies in the craft of knitting and is a comment on industrial fabrication and fast fashion implication on sustainable design. While the sustainable aspect is important, the main result of this project lies in the craft of knitting and to show a new method of working with cables and colour pattern techniques.