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The knitting machine was invented near Nottingham in 1589 and its popularisation led to the Luddite Rebellion in 1811 (Merchant, Blood in the Machine.). It has undergone many transformations, from a worker's menace, to a house-wife’s helper, to an artist’s tool. This publication explores the machines connections to revoltion, violence and cybernetics. It's an investigation into an overlooked & vaguely obsolete tool, trying to understand it's complex past and imagine how the knitting machine fits into the the future of art & labor.