[HN Gopher] We're Knot Friends
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We're Knot Friends
Author : edo-codes
Score : 135 points
Date : 2023-04-03 11:56 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| woooof wrote:
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| durkie wrote:
| This is a really lovely post about community, math and art. Has
| me interested in making my own bracelets or mini-tapestries.
| Thanks!
| joshvm wrote:
| You can do some simple multi-colour work if you knot
| symmetrically and you have appropriate length threads (one super
| long base colour, usually). For seldom used colours in the
| bracelet, it's a bit like multi colour 3D printing with purge-to-
| infill. You just go back and forth with the background to hide
| the colour you're going to use later and the background just
| weaves back and forth over the threads (instead of adding a knot
| on each thread each time). The knots are the same as usual, but
| you do a mirror image to reverse the direction. It's less pretty
| than these, but you can easily do single colour pixel fonts. It
| requires a bit of planning if you need to move colours around to
| different columns though.
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Fiber arts were definitely the original and oldest "3D
| printing". Automated looms were computers (with punch cards)
| well before the rest of computers. My mother has a computer-
| controlled embroidery machine and it is definitely a "3D
| printer" to watch it in action. Sometimes I think there's an
| obvious blindness in the way the term "3D printer" gets used
| that overlooks a very rich history in textiles (much of that
| history itself direct predecessors to the same tech).
| czbond wrote:
| You humans and your artsy, questionably useful hobbies outside of
| work ;)
| akeck wrote:
| * * *
| waboremo wrote:
| Loved the bracelets, reminded me a lot of ones I used to make
| with friends growing up but were based off those plastic flat
| strings.
|
| Another I see growing in popularity are bead painting.
| Inexpensive, slow paced, and can be communal since you can share
| your works or bead paint together since it doesn't require full
| concentration - some even sell their creations on etsy. If you
| don't want to deal with the daunting aspect of a blank canvas,
| paint by numbers also exist and is probably the ideal way to bead
| paint together. So if you're looking for an option with friends
| and family and bracelets aren't really your thing, try it out.
| dylan604 wrote:
| there was also the trend of using phone cables with the color
| coded patterns
| yowzadave wrote:
| My daughter (age 8) is fascinated with these kinds of bracelets.
| It's been fun to have her find an image of one that she likes,
| and then reverse-engineer how it could have been put together to
| help her make one of her own. YouTube has made this kind of
| learning so much easier than when we were kids.
|
| Like OP describes, it's an enjoyable communal activity, one that
| helps her get better with her hands and learn patience/focus, and
| is something she likes to show off to her friends when she's
| done.
| hahajk wrote:
| > Thinking of this makes me realize me how little I've
| experienced communal activities since then. It has the same
| feeling of a family sitting together making Christmas cookies, or
| a group of artists sitting together sketching. People complain
| about the difficulty of making friends in your thirties, and I
| wonder how much of that is simply because we don't afford
| ourselves the time for such communal activities. We aren't
| regularly around groups of people with the sort of free time that
| precipitates these moments of idle bonding.
|
| Isn't this what lunch is for? (I know not all organizations have
| a culture of "taking lunch")
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Work isn't always the best place to make or maintain
| friendships. In some ways this seems another lament for better
| "third places" in our lives (places that aren't home or work
| where friendship and socialization and community can better
| happen; without the strictures of work or the structure of home
| life).
| munificent wrote:
| _> Thinking of this makes me realize me how little I've
| experienced communal activities since then. It has the same
| feeling of a family sitting together making Christmas cookies, or
| a group of artists sitting together sketching. People complain
| about the difficulty of making friends in your thirties, and I
| wonder how much of that is simply because we don't afford
| ourselves the time for such communal activities. We aren't
| regularly around groups of people with the sort of free time that
| precipitates these moments of idle bonding._
|
| I've been thinking about this for the past couple of years,
| especially since the pandemic. I was locked down with my wife and
| two kids the entire, but we spent less time than you'd expect
| just _being_ together.
|
| We were either:
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| 1. Doing explicit demarcated activity together like eating
| dinner, watching a movie, or playing a multi-player videogame.
| These are nice, but require coordination and don't provide much
| opportunity for idle chat (except for dinner).
|
| 2. Doing our own completely mentally-emcompassing things, usually
| involving separate screens. These also don't lend themselves to
| idle conversation. We may be spatially colocated, but we are all
| effectively worlds away.
|
| Ever-present electronic devices connected to the Internet with an
| infinite feed of new media to consume has essentially destroyed
| all middle ground between those two poles.
|
| It's horrible and horribly unhealthy. People need time to just
| idle next to each othere with our minds free to wander and free
| to peridically bounce off each other.
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