A Yarn & Fibre Publication is a DIY magazine dedicated to textiles and fibre crafts, with a focus on community, playfulness and sustainability. We publish research- and practice-led writing, visual work and patterns.
You can call it AYFP for short.
Submissions for Issue 3 of the magazine will open in Winter 2025.
AYFP is edited and designed by Emma Crabtree.
EPOCH: A ‘MOVE SLOW & MEND THINGS’ APPROACH TO CODING
Epoch: A ‘Move Slow & Mend Things’ Approach to Coding by Sophie Nadel explores the relationships between traditional and newly-emerging methods of making.
Beginning with a dataset of 5000 punch card designs, creative technologist Sophie Nadel uses a GAN system to generate typographic knitting patterns. The resulting typeface can then be knitted by hand or machine, completing the cycle between the computer-generated and the material. Through the lenses of textiles and typography, Epoch presents a model for how artists can utilise emerging technologies, without large AI models, to deeply connect with their tools as a knitter might pick out yarn for a project.
94 pages, 130 x 210mm, spiral-bound, Risograph printed
Edition of 200
The accompanying font can be downloaded here.