Embroiderer: Do-It-Yourself Embroidery Aided with Digital Tools

What is it about?

With the development of industrial society, the items needed by people's life are gradually replaced from the traditional handicrafts to the products produced by the industrial assembly line. Although people's material living standard is greatly improved, people's demand for personalized, stylized and emotional products is ignored. Knitting is a long history and widely used traditional handicraft, and is increasingly popular with the younger generation, however, the lack of handicraft experience and the complexity of knitting often hinder the participation and creation of handcraft enthusiasts. Based on this, this paper explores a digital design and auxiliary manual weaving method, aiming to reduce the difficulty of manual weaving, expand the design space of manual weaving, so that more ordinary people without manual experience to participate in the weaving creation of daily objects, to meet people's personalized emotional needs. The main contents of this paper include: (1) proposed the overall workflow from parameterized pattern design to auxiliary manual weaving, Including the development of a computer-aided design tool, Users can independently adjust the knitting direction, weaving thread type and other parameters, To convert the existing image into a 3D printed out auxiliary knitting mold, To achieve the goal of simplifying hand-weaving; (2) Designed and practiced a series of personalized weaving patterns of transforming old clothes, Verify the feasibility of the method described in this paper, And expand its application space; (3) Designed the software application and the corresponding user interface of the smart mobile devices, To enhance the user experience of the design process, The application direction of this method is preliminarily explored.

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Why is it important?

Proposing a hybrid embroidery workflow to combine digital technology with traditional embroidery craft, exploring ways to lower the threshold of manual embroidery. Developing a design tool to generate the craft aided molds, with the exploration of the materials used in the mold and the optimized parameters of punching schemes. Conducting a user study to verify the feasibility of this method and providing insight findings to explore the potential of hybrid embroidery.

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