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monday | may 30 | 2005

Stitch your statement

Sweatshop activist group microRevolt has developed an online tool called knitPro that transforms any uploaded graphic file into a knitting pattern. They designed it for the purposes of wearing corporate logos on hand-stitched garments to encourage sweatshop awareness and making "crochet blanket petitions." However, the tool works with any image, so you could even immortalize on a sweater the face of a family pet or your favorite celebrity whose implosion is imminent. Never learned to [PARTIAL POST: VISIT THE SITE TO READ THE REST AND SEE PICTURES]

Sweatshop activist group microRevolt has developed an online tool called knitPro that transforms any uploaded graphic file into a knitting pattern. They designed it for the purposes of wearing corporate logos on hand-stitched garments to encourage sweatshop awareness and making "crochet blanket petitions." However, the tool works with any image, so you could even immortalize on a sweater the face of a family pet or your favorite celebrity whose implosion is imminent. Never learned to knit? MicroRevolt put instructions online so now you really have no excuse. (via Rhizome.org)

[posted by Frank]

OMG! 3 comments!
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Now if they can invent the machine that will knit the pattern for you and still look man made!!

ethan said @ 10:47 pm EST

Perhaps with a matching ankle bracelet?

Frank said @ 11:59 am EST

will you knit this for me?

scott said @ 03:35 pm EST