The craft of crochet: Sampling, Improvisation and Patterns
Posted by: Edward in: Intro/Concepts“Sampling” simply means that these crochet projects are a demonstration of the various techniques in the craft of crochet.
“Improvisation” means that these crochet projects are an improvisation or innovation of existing techniques and/or patterns in the craft of crochet.
“Sampling” and “Improvisation” are independent and inter-related. They are independent in the sense that they are stand-alone projects that can be undertaken to produce a finished product or finished piece. They are inter-related in the sense that an innovation developed in “Improvisation” may be sampled as a new project under “Sampling”; a sample demonstrated in “Sampling” may likewise be carried to further innovation under “Improvisation.”
Patterns may be illustrated (in charts) or described (in text). Photographs of the finished pieces with detailing of the patterns will most usually be provided.
Pattern instructions should be seen as a “knowledge base” from which implicit knowledge may be drawn. They are, therefore, not strictly “pattern instructions” but rather “pattern definitions.”
March 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Sampling! Patterns! Aaarrgh!
It’s funny how simple words like patterns and samples are very much overloaded both in the arts, sciences and engineering. >.<
Now that I think about it, we are composed of the patterns that we have: DNA patterns, behavioral patterns, etc. etc.
Really hairy stuff..
October 11th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Yes, presumably “pattern” always implies a “rule” -and a “rule” always implies a pattern. However, the dominant culture seems to reject all forms of rule-based behaviour (except in sport and science) and has somehow promoted the computer as a fun (interactive)toy which has nothing to do with iether rules or patterns.
However, perhaps in real life, the evidence of pattern in natural and cultural based behaviour cannot be overestmated -although it is obviously frequently underestimated.
I wonder how powerfull the influence of the English language is in destroying a global understanding of rule and pattern: The large vocabulary (of mostly borrowed words) precludes “English” from being a true language (English may have originated as a pidgin or creole -being used as lingua franca under the diverse ethnically different tribes on the island in the early period before Britain became a single nation). In other systems of speech -involving a small vocabulary plus a grammar to extend the vocabulary -the role of “pattern” (relating form and content) is much more obvious…. In many languages -such as Latin and Gaelic -but presumably Tagalog too, onomatopia, rythmn and rhyme have an important (poetic) role in elegant speech….
“Veni, vidi, vici” Caesar’s terse remark concerning Britian, seems so much less elegant when translated as “I came, I saw, I conquered”.
So is there a relationship between “speech” and “thought” patterns (I.e linguistic pattern and cognitive skill)?