Nithikul Nimkulrat
Since 2004, hand knotting has been the main technique for creating my textile artworks, all made of paper string. The knotting process had always followed my intuition and/or a rough sketch until I encountered mathematical knot diagrams and knot theory in 2013. Since then the diagrammatic method has been adopted to my practice so that I am able to create two-tone knotted paper sculptures and various forms of knotted textiles using other materials than paper string.
Following the rhombille tiling rule that each vertex has either six rhombi (all 60◦) meet at their acute corners, or three rhombi (all 120◦) meet at their obtuse corners, a tiling notation was constructed from identical rhombi, each enclosing four rhombus unit cells placed in the same orientation. The rhombille tiling notation created was used as a design tool to knot this two-tone patterned structure that, by surprise, became three-dimensional.