Linear Lace Pendant

Linear Lace Pendant depicts the seven types of frieze symmetries in knitted lace, with designs inspired by traditional Estonian knitting and the patterns of Nancy Bush. It delves more deeply than the Double Knitting Groups into the shape of the stitches themselves.

Due to inherent asymmetries in the shaping stitches, representations of frieze groups with 180° rotations (the designs in the top row) merely approximate rotational symmetry and reflections with horizontal axes. If we discount these approximations, each of the three designs has the same frieze group as the design directly below it. The final frieze group, in the bottom edging, can only be realized horizontally.

Linear Lace Pendant was hand knit on 2.75 mm knitting needles. It is one of the artworks that appears in my Bridges 2017 proceedings paper, A Survey of Symmetry Samplers.