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.

AYFP is edited and designed by Emma Crabtree,
Katie J Barlow and Jess Freeman-Attwood.

Email: emmakcrabtree@gmail.com


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.