I found a new tool to aid my one handed knitting attempts! Her names is Knitting Nancy. She was found lurking in my parents’ house. Using the four staples that protrude from her head (no wonder she looks fed up) you can create a long piece of what’s called French Knitting. It looks a bit like a long worm – I can’t think how else to describe it!
We decided to use this pink fluffy ‘wool’ to represent Industry. The ‘wool’ is synthetic, which we thought apt, and somewhat alien in appearance. Our Industrial worm will weave its way into the various fields of genetics that emerged after the genetic code had been cracked, and DNA sequencing had been made possible.
Tags: french knitting, history of genetics, industry and genetics, knitting nancy, science communication, science knitting
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