The Tintype Scarf eBook contains patterns for both the Tintype Scarf: 01 and Tintype Scarf: 02.

The Tintype Collection is a new group of designs that continues my work in the field of short-row pattern motifs. This body of work highlights the way color changing and gradient yarns move throughout a design.

This collection was inspired by a minimalist, architectural wall, fabricated with a series of vertically stacked, elongated, hexagonal cut-outs that serve to frame the landscape. The design see appendixes is the work of architect, Nader Tehrani, from his portfolio entry entitled, “Newton House”, and located in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. When I first saw this design, I immediately fell in love with its use of asymmetry, the subtle tone variations inherent in the natural wood, and the way the cut-outs create a unique window into the space beyond.

Tintype: also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called ‘tin’ though not actually tin-coated, coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. It was introduced in 1853 by Adolphe Alexandre Martin in Paris. The name for this collection stems from the way the design is knit. Garter stitch rows are used to create the slat styled ‘walls’. The ‘windows’ are short-row shapes made using stockinette stitch and the double stitch turn technique. With the garter stitch rows visually rising up above the areas of stockinette, the short-row shapes appear to visually fall behind the garment or beyond the space of the main body of the work. I see these ‘windows’ as a way of looking through time into the past, like an old photograph. Memories are hidden within the mystery of the shifting colors as the work takes shape, each ‘window’ focusing our attention on the moment at hand.

eBook published in November 2024

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