Digital Crochet: Toward a Visual Language for Pattern Description
Klara Seitz, Patrick Rein, Jens Lincke, Robert Hirschfeld · 2022
Crochet is still purely manual. While other crafts such as knitting or weaving have received technical support, the process of creating instructions for new crochet patterns is barely supported by domain-specific, digital tools. Those tools are constrained by their underlying crochet pattern languages that are either ambiguous or limited in their expressiveness. As a result, creating crochet instructions requires substantial manual effort and can result in incomplete or ambiguous instructions after all.