Friday, August 20, 2010

Knitting with clear PVC tubing

Clear tubes are flexible and hold no shape but through knitting, like the electrical cable, it becomes strong and can provide structural strength.

Here is some of the knitting we have done with the PVC tubing:

All knitted using the "knit stitch" method
Made using crochet


Knitting method based on finger knitting

From this experimentation, it has become apparent that the "knit stitch" rather than the method based on "finger knitting" is better and easier to do.

Next we will try pumping water through the knitted tubes to see what kind of effect that gives to the project. We hope it will amplify the pattern of the tubes, showing traces and mapping out paths.

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