loops && loops

Before computers, there were looms. Before software, there were stitches.

Loops && Loops is a five-day workshop for CultureHub NYC youth ages 14-20 learning to code and crochet at the same time, discovering they're two sides of the same idea. They moved between a laptop and a hook, between pixels and yarn. They learned to draw and make patterns with code, then translated a drawing into a filet crochet pattern you stitch by hand.

Along the way, they met two kinds of loops: the kind that runs inside code, and the kind that builds a piece of fabric, one stitch at a time. Students used p5.js (Javascript library) to learn coding and design family name emblems onto filet crochet tapestries to take home.

day1: First Loop, Before Computers
- What is a loop, before and after computers?
- Loops: chain, single crochet, double crochet

day2: Where Code Begins
- First code sketch: drawing with code (p5.js)
- Reading your stitches + crochet patterns

day3: Inside the Loops
- Designing with computation and logic
- Pattern generation

day4: From Code to Cloth
- Pixelating your drawing
- Work on your filet crochet

day5: Finishing Touches
- Work on filet crochet + Weaving in ends and blocking

CoLab is CultureHub’s free one week art & technology program for young artists ages 14–20.

Photos by Ji Hoon Kim, courtesy of CultureHub.