{"id":186,"date":"2012-11-30T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/pedal-powered-un-knitting-machine.html"},"modified":"2016-05-21T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T20:34:49","slug":"pedal-powered-un-knitting-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/pedal-powered-un-knitting-machine.html","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Powered Un-Knitting Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pedal-powered-un-knitting-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pedal-powered-un-knitting-machine.jpg\" alt=\"pedal powered un-knitting machine\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A highly unusual bicycle, designed to help recycle unwanted woollen clothes, unravels any clothing item back into its pre-knitted form. It has been selected as one of the best student design projects of 2012 by the British National Centre for Craft and Design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The un-knitting machine is based on pedal power and built around an old bicycle frame. The un-knitter sits on a chair pedalling and wool passes through steam coming out of a kettle before being collected on a spindle. The machine was designed by Imogen Hedges, a student at Kingston University.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingston.ac.uk\/pressoffice\/news\/503\/13-11-2012-national-recognition-for-design-with-a-novel-take-on-recycling.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-product-design\/bicycle-sweaters-yarn-unravel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Treehugger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/02\/pedal-powered-wool-carding-machine.html\" target=\"_self\">Pedal powered wool carding machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats.html\" target=\"_self\">Rocking chair knits winter hats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/pedal-powered-electronic-waste-recycling-machine.html\" target=\"_self\">Pedal powered electronic waste recycling machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/11\/when-low-tech-goes-ikea.html\" target=\"_self\">When low-tech goes IKEA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/pedal-powered-farms-and-factories.html\" target=\"_self\">Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/history-of-pedal-powered-machines.html\" target=\"_self\">The short history of early pedal powered machines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A highly unusual bicycle, designed to help recycle unwanted woollen clothes, unravels any clothing item back into its pre-knitted form. It has been selected as one of the best student design projects of 2012 by the British National Centre for Craft and Design.&#8221; &#8220;The un-knitting machine is based on pedal power and built around an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,55,56,315,97],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}