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From yarn shops and trade shows to YouTube and TikTok, The Domestic Machine is the unlikely story of how machine knitting's original insiders inspired its next generation.
A small cult following has kept machine knitting alive through lo-fi tutorials and scrappy online communities and it worked. Just when the industry seemed finished, the internet was born and these knitters showed up immediately: uploading videos, building forums, sharing everything they knew. In doing so, they unknowingly built a craft archive for the future. Now their content has found an unexpected audience in a new generation of social media influencers and fashion designers obsessed with a technique the world nearly forgot.
The Domestic Machine brings multiple generations of knitters together on screen for the first time, filmed in homes, studios, and community spaces. It's a story about craft, camaraderie, and what happens when intergenerational knowledge finds its next audience.
The Domestic Machine is directed by Victoria Manganiello and Nicole Yi Messier
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