Tricot Wax

Tricot Wax is a series of experiments in transferring patterns typically found on wax fabric (the printed fabric manufactured in The Netherlands that is hugely popular across Africa and its diasporas) into digitally-augmented knits using a knitting machine.

This project was started during Lalya’s residency at Digital Media Labs in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in 2014, with the help of Sam Meech and Laura Pullig. Recent developments include projection mapping on the patterns during the Yorkshire Hack at Digital Utopias in Hull in 2015, as well as the development of more intricate designs.