The magic about fiber is that you start something of one dimension, a rope, a string, a LINE. Then you cross it over itself or weave it and you have two dimensions, a SHAPE. But when you knot it, or knit or crochet or wrap or tangle or sew it, you make something in three dimensions, a FORM. Woven fabric also lends itself well to graphing data, since it’s already got a built-in XY axis.

After making this Science Sampler to learn some stitching techniques, I started down a couple of other exploratory paths incorporating fiber — SciKu, Bird Charms, and Mapping Change.