Photo: Becky Stern

About two years ago I invented a way to keep my face warm without hiding it with my Identity Preserving Balaclava. Now I’ve updated my original idea, with the help of Becky Stern‘s hacked Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine, and made this Machine Knit Idenity-Preserving Balaclava.

The balaclava is knit from cotton yarn and the design is from a bitmap file, in which pictures of my head from every angle were photoshopped together into a single rectangular image. I used the same images to make the bitmap file as I did for the original ID-Preserving Balaclava project.



Several different versions of the design were knit before I had one that I was happy with.



And this is what it looks like from the back.

Photo: Becky Stern

Press:

CRAFT and MAKE Magazine

Core77 Design Magazine

Neatorama

The Daily What

The Creators Project

The Laughing Squid

Gizmodo (called it a Bitmap Balaclava! I think I’ll use that.)