This design is the follow-up to free beanie patterns I have made available these past years. In those patterns, an emblem or medallion in square-kufic Arabic is tilted at an angle against a stranded color work striped background.

In terms of the knitting itself, the flag is done in intarsia using cotton yarn of any gauge, and incorporates optional buttonholes for flag attachment. I stress here the use of natural fibers as something to aspire to for reasons having to do with sustaining the planet. A computer script I wrote calculates cast on for a flag based on the gauge...

This design is the follow-up to free beanie patterns I have made available these past years. In these patterns, an emblem or medallion in square-kufic Arabic is tilted at an angle against a stranded color work striped background reminiscent of Armenian/two-stranded knitting.

This is the follow-up to my Basiita Beanie: Salaam version, here using a square-kufic Arabic medallion that reads “Malcolm X”. The logo this is derived from stems from a project that our Beirut-based artists’ collective completed a few years ago: Malcolm X Returns.

This design evolved from a beanie pattern I made available earlier this year. In that pattern (Salaam Beanie), the square kufic Arabic of salaam (peace/peace of mind) showed up in twisted purl stitches on a stockinette background.

This design started out as a search for a knitted version of a ṭāqīyah—referred to in other languages from within the faith as an ’araqchin, kufi, kap, or topi. After a dozen 
or so prototypes I settled on this design, and expanded it also to work as a beanie. The design incorporates the square-kufic Arabic rendering of the word “salaam”—peace/...