WORKSHOP + COPYROOM / August 23 – September 7, 2025
リサーチプロジェクト Knits & Review（ニッツ・アンド・レビュー）. その取り組みの一環として, 戦時下に市民がホームフロント——兵士や負傷者への慰問——として編んでいたニットパターンを選定. 現行の糸と道具で編めるように翻案し, 京都のプロジェクトスタジオ〈なはれ〉に《コピー室》として期間限定で公開した.
1. 来場者は, 自ら会場設置のコピー機を用いて各編み図と翻案を出力し, 持ち帰ることができる（全8種／各種1人1部まで／無料）. デザインされた資料は, 研究・教育・個人制作での利用を見据え, 著作権に配慮のうえ Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 にて提供された.
2. オプションとして専用バインダー（ステンレス製の綴じ金具付き）を会場にて販売し, 来場者が自らの手で編み図を整理・保存できる形式をとった. バインダーにはステッカー2枚と「最初に覚えたい編み目の作り方」ガイドが同封された.
*また初日と2日目には1910年代にイギリスで編まれていた帽子とマフラーの奇妙なハイブリット「Cap Scarf」の作り方をレクチャーするワークショップを開催した. 編み図を参加者とともに再読し, 現代に編み直すことで, かつての人々の手の動きを追体験した.
Support: 株式会社ロフトワーク, 株式会社元廣
Graphic Design: Morio Deguchi
Model in Cap Scarf: Anna
A Project by TALK NONSENSE
Research Project: Knits & Review As part of this initiative, knitting patterns produced by citizens on the home front—items to comfort soldiers and the wounded during wartime—were selected. These patterns were adapted into forms that can be knitted with present-day yarns and tools, and were made publicly accessible as the temporary installation “COPYROOM” at the project studio "nahare" in Kyoto.
Exhibition and Workshop Details
〈WORKSHOP + COPYROOM〉
Dates: August 23 – September 7, 2025
Venue: nahare
1. Visitors could use the copier installed on site to output each pattern together with its adapted version, and take them home (8 types in total / one copy per person / free of charge). The designed materials were provided under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, with due regard for copyright, and with a view to their use in research, education, and personal making.
2. As an option, a dedicated binder (equipped with stainless steel binding hardware) was made available for purchase at the venue, enabling visitors to organize and preserve the patterns by their own hand. Each binder was accompanied by two stickers and a guide titled “How to Cast On: The First Stitches to Learn.”
*On the first and second days, a workshop was held that provided instruction in the making of the “Cap Scarf,” a peculiar hybrid of hat and scarf knitted in Britain during the 1910s. Together with participants, the pattern was re-read and re-enacted, so as to retrace the hand movements of those who once made it.
Support: Loftwork Inc., Motohiro Co., Ltd.
Graphic Design: Morio Deguchi
Model in Cap Scarf: Anna
A Project by TALK NONSENSE