Author(s): Rüdiger Schlömer

Craft | Textiles

Learn to knit a variety of typefaces modeled on digital designs by well-known type foundries including Emigre, Lineto, and Typotheque, and emblazon your hats, scarves, and sweaters with smartly designed monograms, letters, or words. Beginning with knitting basics, tips, and resources, and progressing through more advanced techniques, Typographic Knitting provides a systematic introduction on how to construct a variety of letter designs using different knitting techniques. This book bridges the gap between craft and design in a new way, and will delight typography connoisseurs, avid knitters, and makers looking for a novel medium.

Review: 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.
- Publishers Weekly
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 Knittingcovers it all, in glorious detail.
- Zuzana Licko, Emigre Fonts
"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. As you'd expect, there are plenty of stranded colourwork alphabets to play with, but 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."
- The Knitter (UK)
"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."
- Mason-Dixon Knitting
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.
- Vogue Knitting
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.
- Craft Gossip
This book is perfect for the literary knitters of the world, delightfully combining letters and fiber into one art form.
- Knitscene Magazine

Author Biography: Schlomer converts fonts by well-known type foundries such as Emigree, Lineto and Typotheque into typographic knitting patterns using sample alphabets.