Degree Show 2025

‘Casting On’ began as a project to explore experimental typography within the context of textiles, inspired by being recently handed down a 1970s punch-card knitting machine (an empisal knitmaster 321) from my granny. While knitting is a form of creativity that I have always been surrounded by, I was interested in how my current typographic practice could be influenced by this and how two separate disciplines could influence each other. Given that this was a process-led brief, I feel it is important to show the variety in my experimentation before landing on a final technique. The project transitions from a general alphabetical exploration to one that uses knitting abbreviations and notes from my granny to illuminate the samples, with these functional elements having a more decorative function instead. Rather than formal knitting technique, the project embraces mistakes and accidental finds through the process, using the machine and punch-lace function in a way that it isn’t strictly meant to be used but valuing the results from a typographic perspective.