Knitting Chart
編み図 / 19th century– / Style / Notation Systems
The sheet music of the needle: stitches encoded as symbols on a grid. Japan's JIS stitch symbols compress each operation into one figure — design you can see before reading, in contrast to the West's written-out patterns.
The grid of stitch symbols / One stitch, one symbol / Row and stitch coordinates / Correspondence to the finished fabric
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- JIS stitch symbols / Western written patterns / Fair Isle charting culture