“The 365 knitting clock was made to measure and register time in a three dimensional form to visualise the otherwise invisible time factor that connects us all. Instead of showing time in numbers, the tool we normally use to understand and organise time, the knitting clock shows the philosophical point of the ongoing process of time. It is knitting the hours and the days and shows the time as something that is constantly moving, changing and developing.
Every passing of a half hour is marked by the knitting of a stitch, a full day is measured by a full circle around the clock and a year results in a two metre long scarf. After one year the wool has to be replaced and a new year can be knitted. The year that has past is this year’s scarf. And the coming year is the wool unknitted.”
- Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
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Images by Miriam Lehnart
Thank you to Maria Popova
What an absolutely superb idea and concept!
If I could afford one (which somehow I doubt!) I’d love one!
Incredible! wish I had one.
Where…. WHERE CAN I GET ONE?! It is beautiful.
Whoa. This totally blew my mind.
Can it be programmed to knit a proper Fourth Doctor Scarf? And if so, how long would it take in time to do so?
loving the yarny goodness…thanks for sharing this link!
Can I attach one of these to my barometer to make a windsock?
Beautiful, fascinating and intriguing. All the things I expect from theretronaut’s site. There’s something very Swedish about it and how I’d love one hung on my wall.
Is it knit one past purl one?
I am determined to own one of these. How wonderful!
I am completely determined to own one of these.
I love this idea…. In my own craziness about knitting, I’d like it if a stitch got knit every minute… sigh… but then that would not be practical.
imagine how much more effective it would be at showing time passing and how cool it would look if one used a multi-colored/color-shifting yarn.
B^D
My first thought was what happens with Dailight Savings Time, in the Fall?
What an awesome visual of not only the passage of time but what can be accomplished in said time. Many people knit alot faster but it sure does put into perspective that hand made requires time and we know how precious time is. Just look at it knitting by so fast.
Love the roundness, the spider-weaving loominess, the echo of all those folktales where time and fate are woven in real threads by some mysterious crone. Also echoes an old hymn, something about, “How beautiful the march of days…”
I just saw these in Normann in Copenhagen a few hours ago. They’re lovely and a great example of a knitwear automaton doubling as a chronograph. I’d love these even more if they they didn’t require an electrical power source!
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can you tell me where these can be found and how much they cost
where can these be found and how much do they cost
Hi Marcie, follow the link in the post to Siren Elise Wilhelmsen