Internet enables everyone connected to communicate their ideas, while generating free content for digital overlords, with exchange for total surveillance and crepuscular control, and as an unlikely artifact of other unrelated modalities, empowers Creativity, Collaboration, and Cooperation -- a glitch where Money and Competition hadn't spoiled things yet.

Even though some male fashion designers made it to the Met, officially, knitting is not part of Art Olympus. Even Games made it there already, but knitting is a vintage housewife's hobby that gets categorized strictly as "Arts & Crafts" at best, not "Fine Arts". Aquarelle used to be in the same category, but somehow made it upwards, so there is a hope.

Art biennials are full of yarn lately, but it's more destructive and gloomy -- usual must have components of Sex & Violence habitually objectify the Feminine. Smashing a violin on a stage requires neither special skills, or training, or even elemental understanding of music -- even thought there is an easy poetry in violence, poesy becomes irrelevant in a commercially driven desensitized rent economy of fast financial investments fueled by debt peonage. It's much easier to write a whooping march, then to create a sophisticated symphony that requires time and resources to mature as well as educated audience to appreciate.

Women in America after reaching their post-reproductive and post-representational age gain such fabulous levels of invisibility that can compete with Schrodinger's cat. Their historical significance of providing love and care for the family was monetized long ago and as any Zombie technology (ref. Zombie Media of Jussy Parikka) now has a potential of becoming Fine Art.

In her Daughters of Alchemy Meredith K. Ray describes a tradition to share notebooks of recipes and what not among ladies of Italian Renaissance, just like their famous men counterparts, girls used to write their own Tractatus'. Those notes were shared among friends and admirers, but unfortunately, only tip of the iceberg stays visible through layers of amnesiac descendants enchanted by the Pops -- Da Vinci's diaries made it to 21st century collecting tones of supporting materials without giving due credits to origins.

Bobbin lace is essentially a binary operation, and algorithms shared in pattern books of Freifrauen of the world suspiciously resemble early computer programs for ballistic calculations, and arguably can be natively read by Assembly compiler. Knitting is a bit more complicated system, and crochet verges with quantum logic.

The first algorithm for computer program was written by the Countess Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron.

Before the invention of electronic computers, "computer" was a job description, not a machine, women's job that is. Even before World War II ENIAC engine, women were considered "detail-oriented" and well suited for office jobs such as telephone operators or programmers.

Men lace composer -- Herbert Niebling

Love and Kindness is the future of Art.

Traditional Love Magic of Madagascar involves Dancing with Corpses (David Graeber)

Intergenerational transfer of knowledge..

Oh, doilies! -- Mandalas of the 60's housewives, flowering particle systems of infinite domesticity, naively composed bifurcation algorithms, artifacts of hours of private meditations starched to conform to societal norms. They could become weather patterns, they could evolve into Strange Attractors and become chaotic explosives, but no, here they are in women's magazines, luring from vintage photographs of bourgeois homes, sneaking from polished furniture and boxes of Valentine's chocolates, criminal ornaments quietly sitting under neath of crystal vases with dead flowers.

Wolfram's New Kind of Science 'discovered' 255 patterns out of which all possible combinations of patterns on animal skins, shells, plants formations, and so on are composed in nature. From the knitter's point of view, his discovery is a beginner's knitting diagram, not specifically interesting. Maybe cellular automata, the Game of Life comes a little closer, infinity systems, and Lorenz's algorithms... Can it explain why so many women programmers are avid knitters, exchanging inevitable occupational antidepressants and other pharma-junk for recreational yoga and lacemaking?

Our society is obsessed with grids and maps, starting with Excel spreadsheets, database models, and Google maps to rewriting histories by redrawing borders and melting primordial ice. (see Edward Said on maps) position and momentum algorithmic efficiency

There is a value in playing musical piece over and over again, or in rereading the same book, or stepping in the same river twice. The urge to progress undermined and concealed this treasure from radar of European culture starting from Enlightenment.

Paraphrasing the obvious, happy beginnings are all alike; every ending ends in its own way (ref. aforementioned babies), puts the importance of the way over the ends of the thread.

Knitting is a creative process that starts from the idea, or inspiration, reads/creates notations, or flows via the making process free-jazz -- counting, or not, each loop matters.

Meanwhile, intercentural-intercultural symbolic exchange takes place, mixing species barriers...

Africal alphabets, drumming, messages of Persian carpets

Musical/dance notation systems

Mandalas

Haiku poetry

This shawl has following patterns:

The future is quantum (computing), further digging into alternative (mathematical/logical) systems to produce new modalities of thinking that are not limited to 3D, and recognizing Art as a symbolic atmosphere of society that can only be perpetuated by sharing & caring, love & kindness sustainable ecosystems.