Meandering Path Dress – While in graduate school at RISD studying Textiles, I was motivated by a newly-learned technique of using “short rows” on a hand-manipulated knitting machine, which created a pattern of bumps and holes in the fabric. While attempting to knit a scarf, an error in the process created a long curved piece of fabric. The curve suggested the neckline of a dress, so it was hung over the shoulder of the dress form and the wrap dress was built piece by piece, measuring and reattaching it to the knitting machine and continuing to knit in a different direction each time. Because of this process, there are only two short seams in the dress. Completed in 2005, and photographed by Cathy Carver.
