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I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track. different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders

This is delightfully weird, I love projects like this.

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Beautiful work.

As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P

Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.

Is this something that can be seen in person?

This is a great idea .. I wonder if it can be adapted to using recycled plastic threads, so that a fleet of these could be deployed into the ocean to recover plastics, turn them into nets, and use those nets to .. recover more plastic?

If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.

Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!

The page for buying a machine doesn't work :(

Not that i could likely afford it.

I’d like to see a video of the full process.

The reason is that the scarves in the online shop look very tight and possibly created by something else. There is nothing that would prevent the seller from doing this legitimately if that is the case, because Wind Knitting Factory may just be the brand.

I’d like to think the scarves in their online shop are fully knitted by the wind, though.

I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.

Now we just need wind spinning, wind carding, wind shearing, and wind husbandry. Lots of vertical opportunity.

Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)

I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.

Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?

Oh that device should look familiar to fans of Hand Tool Rescue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCNaHMo2EI