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Tiling notation as design tool for textile knotting

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posted on 2017-08-31, 10:14 authored by Nithikul Nimkulrat, Janette Matthews, Tuomas Nurmi
A textile practitioner and two mathematicians with an interest in textile knotting carried out collaborative work to analyze textile knot practice and create novel knot pattern designs using mathematical tiling methods, in particular the Wang tiles. This paper shows how tiling notation was used to design knot diagrams and visualize novel patterns and structures.

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School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Published in

Bridges 2017: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture

Pages

491 - 494 (4)

Citation

NIMKULRAT, N., MATTHEWS, J. and NURMI, T., 2017. Tiling notation as design tool for textile knotting. IN: Swart, D., Sequin, C. and Fenyvesi, K. (eds). Bridges Conference Proceedings 2017: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 27th-31st July 2017, pp. 491-494.

Publisher

Tessellations Publishing © The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-05-06

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9781938664229

ISSN

1099-6702

Language

  • en

Location

Waterloo, Canada

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