Catalog links for the first three pieces.
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Fundamental Frieze Scroll II, 2018
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The Fundamentals of Lace, 2025
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Float Free, Bumblebee, 2018
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Crystallographic Napkin Ring Series by Ellie Baker and me. Fifteen cloth dinner napkins are folded and rolled into cones, then arranged like the petals of a flower. Each cone is bound by a bead crochet napkin ring with the same design that is on the napkin fabric. To make the rings easier to see, the napkins are folded to place a strip of the unprinted back side of each napkin under the ring. Each of the 15 napkin/ring pairs corresponds to a different wallpaper group (one of 17 possible symmetry structures of designs that repeat in two independent directions in a plane). The other two wallpaper groups are provably unattainable in bead crochet. Charles Wampler proposed the clever method for adding two more groups to our earlier 13-group bead crochet theorem. Spoonflower printed and sewed the napkins from graphics files we generated.
#bridgesmathart is almost here! Crystallographic Napkin Ring Series is the artwork Ellie Baker and I made for Bridges Eindhoven. It showcases our new software tools for making fabric designs that coordinate with bead crochet.
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