Computerknit

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

118

Length of issue (in feet)

469

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: An electronic knitting machine takes the clicking of needles a long way from the days of one plain, one purl... Fairisle sweaters are a mere limbering-up exercise. But the designers of knitting patterns are finding that the machine is knitting the designs faster than they can prepare them, so a computer has been given an "eye" and programmed to turn a pattern painted on a piece of paper into terms of stitches that the knitting machine can understand.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume; Engineering; Computers and computing; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/118

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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