The Typeknitting book (available in three languages) contains several prototypic approaches to typographic knitting, with a focus on constructing single letters. It gives a schematic overview on how letterforms can be constructed with hand knitting techniques like stranded / intarsia knitting, slipstitches, patchwork and illusion knitting.

Projects like pullovers, scarf, mittens or hat show specific use cases, including modified patterns by Helloyarn, Butzeria and Woollythoughts, as well as new patterns. 

Knitted prototypes show typefaces by Andrea Tinnes, Shiva Nallaperumal or Christian Schmalohr, supplemented by 32 charted typefaces from the type foundries Bold Monday, Emigre, Lineto, MuirMcNeal, Nouvelle Noire, Parachute, Typotheque and Walking Chair.

The book has been awarded a «Certificate of Typographic Excellence» (Judge’s Choice) from Type Directors Club NYC, TDC’65 and was nominated for Design Preis Schweiz 2019/20 «Communication Design»
     

     

The Typeknitting book is available in German, English and French (same content). Ask your local Wool & Book store or order a copy below.


»Pixel, Patch und Pattern.
Typeknitting« (German)
—
Verlag Hermann Schmidt
ISBN: 978-3-87439-905-0
www.typografie.de

»Typographic Knitting.
From Pixel to Pattern« 
(English translation)
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Princeton Architectural Press (out of print)
ISBN: 978-1-61689-854-0
www.papress.com 

»Tricot graphique.
Motifs, modèles et grilles
typographiques à tricoter«
(French translation)
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Editions Eyrolles
ISBN: 978-2-212-67878-9
www.editions-eyrolles.com

Editorial Reviews

Modern Daily Knitting:
“This will blow your mind.”
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Vogue Knitting (Holiday 2019)
“For word and graphic design nerds this may be one of the coolest knitting books, ever… This intelligent volume with its strong design focus offers a new way to think about knit stitches, proportion, and the countless ways our medium can articulate a message.“

Franklin Habit / Modern Daily Knitting:
“Type designers live to help people communicate with each other. To see how one of them has chosen to communicate the craft we love is a revelation.”
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Loret Karman / De Amsterdamse Steek:
“The worlds of typography and knitting brought together. The book is just a start. Were it will grow when typographers and knitters are putting their knowledge about our crafts together, is hard to imagine. This book gives us a good starting point and gave me a lot of inspiration.”
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TDC’65 2019 Communication Design Judge’s Choice by Eddie Opara:
“When opening the book, behold the incredible surprises that wait! You are taken into an alternative culture of typography that is knitted! The different stitching techniques are endless and transformative. The open, playful, thought-provoking, effortless, enterprising, and dynamic qualities are profound. You relish the fact that every design is made by hand. The end results are awe-inspiring. It brings life to modularity and systems. After viewing this book, you have to ask yourself, why do you sit at your computer, hour after hour? Are you really making something that is tangible?”
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Knitscene Magazine:
“This book is perfect for the literary knitters of the world, delightfully combining letters and fiber into one art form.”

Publishers Weekly:
“Museum curator and graphic designer Schloemer’s appealingly photographed and artfully laid-out guide charts a rigorous course for knitters interested in converting various texts and typefaces into knitted items. (…)  Knitters will find either stirring encouragement to further explore the genre he introduces, or a forbidding warning against venturing into it.“

Zuzana Licko, Emigre Fonts:
“Now that pixels are becoming invisibly small on our computer screens, it’s time to bring bitmaps full circle, back to their function as building blocks of material that you can keep, and, in this case, that can keep you warm. Typographic Knitting covers it all, in glorious detail.”

Craft Gossip:
“It’s quite an inspirational book that is sure to get you thinking about different ways to leave your mark with text on your knitting projects.”

The Knitter (UK):
“For knitters and designers interested in the art of typography, this handsome book shows how modern typefaces can be converted to knitting patterns in creative and surprising ways. (…) more unexpected techniques include slip stitch pixelated patterns for a ‘dot matrix’ effect, modular patchwork to build large-scale lettering, diagonal stripes, and illusion knitting.”

Novum World of Graphic Design (03.19) / Herbert Lechner:
»Wird es künftig um Wraps per Inch statt um Pica Point gehen, werden wir statt von Bold von Bulky sprechen? Sollte sich Rüdiger Schlömers Typeknitting durchsetzen, besteht durchaus die Möglichkeit, Typografie mit ganz anderen Mitteln zu verstehen.«

typeroom.eu:
Innovative, insightful and playful, the book challenges the readers to learn to knit a variety of typefaces modeled on digital designs by well-known type foundries including Emigre, Lineto, Parachute, and Typotheque (…)
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Design Preis Schweiz 2019/20 , Comments of the nominators:
“Even if DIY is currently very popular: The idea of combining knitting and typography with each other is something one would normally not come up with. The author is successful in a convincing way of making an approach that initially appears unthinkable into something plausible.”
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Typeknitting patterns are developed as independent typeface specimen, or in collaboration with various knitting and type designers. Most previous patterns are contained in the Typeknitting book, more are continously released on Ravelry. 

Knit Grotesk ABC-Blanket

The ABC-Blanket shows Knit Grotesk in its different cuts. Its slipstitch pattern is easily adaptable. Background information, eyecandy and trial fonts onthe Knit Grotesk Microsite.

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Anti Alias Alphabet

The Anti Alias Alphabet celebrates an imperfect, post-digital interpretation of Anti-Aliasing. It is based on 10pt-screenshots of Helvetica, developed by Swiss type designer Max Miedinger. The pixelated letters were translated into repeat patterns for stranded knitting. Add some cosyness to Helvetica and turn your couch into a Movable Type Playground!

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Typographic Mittens

These Typographic Selbu Mittens are an adaptation of Generic Norwegian Mittens by Adrian Bizilia. The pattern contains yarn cryptography: Morse code and Braille is placed on the side and bottom. A blank pattern allows you to modify the basic design and insert any letters you want.

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Double-Face Hat

This Typeknitting Double-Face Hat is an adaptation of the pattern The Unexpected by Meret Buetzberger. Use the blank pattern for personal adaptation.

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Typeknitting fonts are the outcome of an extensive research process on typographic knitting. Some typefaces are developed as a spin-off, some emerge as a workshop exercise. Each typeface is made for a specific technique, which defines many of its formal characteristics.

Knit Hello is the second Typeknitting font, made especially for beginners: knitters without previous knowledge in typography, and graphic designers who have just picked up their needles.

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Knit Grotesk is the first type family specifically made for slipstitch knitting. The most characteristic element, the vertical line grid, derives from the alternating two-tone double rows used in slipstitches. Knit Grotesk’s six cuts can be combined to create an infinite number of typographic expressions. Learn more on the Knit Grotesk Microsite.

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Typeknitting workshops introduce to an intuitive combination of analog and digital tools. This includes basic knitting techniques like Slipstitch, Mosaic, and Patchwork Knitting, analog and digital sketching, pattern and typeface modification. If possible, the local knitting community is involved to start an ongoing dialogue.

Want to try out Knit Hello?
Get free trial fonts (with limited character set) and a test pattern here:

Pre-order the Knit Hello Specimanual:

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HELLO
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