Croche-Matic – building a robot for crocheting 3D spherical form

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Title
Croche-Matic – building a robot for crocheting 3D spherical form
Description
Crochet is a textile craft that has existed since it
evolved out of the practice of nuns-laces during the Great Irish
Famine. Unlike other textile crafts such as knitting it has almost
entirely avoided mechanization and industrialization except for
a select number of one-off crochet machines. These existing
machines are limited to only one or two types of crochet stitches
out of hundreds of possible stitches. Since crochet machines do
not exist in the textile industry, mass produced crochet objects
and clothes sold in stores like Target and Zara are the products
of crochet sweatshops where people make pennies for hours of
their handicraft.
In this paper we present Croche-Matic, a radial crochet
machine for generating three-dimensional spherical geometry.
The Croche-Matic is designed based on Magic Ring technique, a
method for crocheting three-dimensional objects. This technique
is commonly found in crochet Amigurumi, the art of crocheting
small stuffed animals or creatures. Croche-matic is able complete
the four main stitches used in Magic Ring Technique, and has
the capability to crochet three-dimensional objects.
Creator
Perry, Gabriella
Subject
Design
Contributor
García del Castillo y López, Jose Luis
Melenbrink, Nathan
Date
2022-06-09T04:00:42Z
2022
2022-06-08
2022-05
2022-06-09T04:00:42Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
text
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
Identifier
Perry, Gabriella. 2022. Croche-Matic – building a robot for crocheting 3D spherical form. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
29211534
https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37372333
Language
en
Item sets
Graduate School of Design