Me wearing the look I submitted to the 2025 Math + Fashion show at Bridges Eindhoven. From top to bottom: a purple, blue, and teal polygonal quilted top I machine-sewed and hand embroidered, an aqua camisole, a two-thirds-circle skirt printed with a hyperbolic tiling outlined in purple that fades from teal to purple, aqua tights, white and silver platform shoes by United Nude. I’m also wearing a bead crochet bracelet in white, green, blue, and purple. My arms are spread wide to show off the bell sleeves of the top. Behind me is part of a mural by Carrie Patterson, Ash Scherer, and community art students from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Spoonflower printed the fabric for the top and the skirt. The polygons for the top are printed on cotton jersey fabric, while the skirt panels and the fabric for the waist and pockets are on a cotton/linen blend.
Another submission photo for my look in the Bridges Eindhoven Math + Fashion show this July. I’m standing in front of a different section of the mural with my arms spread diagonally and a huge, open-mouthed grin. I think that Ariel Webster, the photographer, caught me in the middle of laughing at something. The top is stitched out of two-layer polygons that are like pillows without stuffing: purple dodecagons (12-sides), teal octagons (8-sided), and medium blue squares. There are also some cut-off slices of polygons to make the hemline and cuff-lines a little less unruly. I hand stitched these together to make a cropped top with flared sleeves, then hand embroidered the dual tiling in white running stitch. A decorative embroidered star appears in the center of each polygon, marking a vertex of the dual tiling. The tiles outlined in white are approximations of 30 45 90 hyperbolic triangles, the same triangles that appear in the Poincaré disk tiling in the skirt.
More post-Bridges posting: my Math + Fashion show outfit. The skirt and top feature two renditions of one triangle tiling in the hyperbolic plane. I coded the Poincaré disk tiling in Processing and @spoonflower-social.bsky.social printed it on fabric.
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!["Anemone II": Decorative Orb (art piece) woven with beads.
As with my 2019 submission (Anemone Ball), I've duplicated most of the hyper-layering of seed beads using netting, right-angle weave, peyote stitch, square stitch and triangle weave. At the thirty vertices of a beaded rhombic triacontahedron, I've created 4-sided protrusions. I've embellished the protrusions in a five-color array to illustrate chirality. "In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations and translations. The terms are derived from Ancient Greek χείρ, meaning "hand"; which is the canonical example of an object with this property." [Wikipedia]
When lines are drawn between each protrusion of the same color, an octahedron is formed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maflhdl5q76amvirmq2t2hrx/bafkreibsetlrhdmaqziun4xxjgq6dww2m7saotuz34gigki4lctjwc7ave)
