ABOUT: TINA TSE KNITS

Tina Tse Knits is the creative space where slow-making knit design meets fiber arts by Tina Tse.

ABOUT: TINA (she/her)

Tina identifies as a queer American-born Chinese from Queens, NY, currently living in Metro Detroit, MI, on Anishinaabe Nations Land. She is also a part of Fiber Club* Detroit.

She started her career in the fashion industry as a knitwear specialist, working with designers to execute their knit fabric or garment ideas and working with artists that used knit as a canvas. Now, she works in the sporting goods industry, developing technical textiles for non-apparel applications for hockey and lacrosse.

Outside of knitting, Tina is passionate about sharing her experiences as an Asian American and mental health and advocate for diverse representation of Asian identity. Her creative work through fiber arts expresses her multiple identities, experiences, and feelings.

Please follow her on Instagram @tina.say.makes and subscribe to her Patreon for more on her design processes and other work beyond knitting.

You can learn more about Tina in these podcast/interviews:

• Collage Creative Podcast

• As Humans Collection

• Asian Sewist Collective Podcast

• Between Two Skeins YouTube Channel

POLICIES

First and foremost, all Black Lives Matter. Tina Tse Knits firmly believes that there is no separation from creation to moral values. Even as a small business operated by one person, Tina is dedicated to working with, collaborating with, and designing with businesses and individuals who share the same values. Tina is strongly against any hate, including racism, anti-blackness, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, against marginalized groups.

Yarn dyers that Tina Tse Knits have collaborated with directly are linked to their websites in the Pattern Shop per pattern design. Any collaborator not linked were not worked with directly or have been discontinued. Yarn used might have been personally purchased out of pocket from what was available at the time.

DESIGN COLLABORATIONS

• AYA FIBERS

• THE RARE CREATURE - discontinued

• CAT SANDWICH FIBERS

• FEATHERFIN YARN

• KNITCRAFT & KNITTERY - discontinued

• WHY KNOT FIBERS

• ICEMELON’S STASH

• LADY DYE YARNS

• PEACHY SKEIN

• LA BIEN AIMEE

• HELLO STELLA FIBRES

• WOOLBERRY FIBER CO.

• LESS TRAVELED YARN

• LITLG (life in the long grass)

• HAWARI BAZAAR YARN

• HU MADE YARN

• MOONDRAKE CO.

• SERENDIPITOUS WOOL

• MITCHELL’S CREATIONS

• ONYX FIBER ARTS

• BELLA FILATO STUDIO

• PERIWINKLE SHEEP

• LAVENDER LUNE YARN CO.

• THE WANDERING FLOCK

• LITTLE SKEIN IN THE BIG WOOL

• KIM DYES YARN

• DYE HARD YARNS

• AQUARIUS MAKE

• WOOL & HONEY

• ON THE ROUND YARN

PUBLICATIONS

• POM POM QUARTERLY MAGAZINE

• KNITCRATE

• LITLG (life in the long grass) MAGAZINE

• NOMADIC KNITS MAGAZINE

• WOOLFOLK

• KNIT STARS (Loops Club)

ORGANIZATIONS donated to from Tina Tse Knits pattern sales:

• American Red Cross - California Wildfires

• International Association of Fire Fighters - Disaster Relief Fund

• SPLC - Southern Poverty Law Center

• RAICES - Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services

• Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico

• Black Visions Collective

• Feed the People Dallas Mutual Aid

• Promised Fibers

• Detroit Black Community Food Security Network