As a young woman, all Marie McMahon wanted was to study fashion but it was financially difficult on her parents. She describes the stroke of good fortune that secured her college career ...

Shima Seiki has highlighted a series of machine, software and digital service developments launched over the past year, ...

Bangladesh’s narrow, garment-heavy export base and weak investment diversification have prevented new industries from absorbing workers displaced by machines ...

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A research team from Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University has developed a prototype knitting machine that can build arbitrarily rigid three-dimensional structures by layering stitches ...

UK design team Isomi, based in Manor Park, Cheshire, has developed the Knit One Chair, demonstrating how 3D knitting technology can unlock a more resourceful, intelligent way to make furniture. 3D ...

Garment manufacturing usually involves the use of purchased fabrics, although you could produce your own fabrics as well as garments made from them. You could specialize in a certain apparel ...

Textiles are a type of cloth or woven fabric; its creation involves several processes than one might think. The production of fibers are spun into yarns, and are then used to create fabrics into many ...

In the core of a knitting machine or at the tips of a skilled knitter’s needles, a strand of fiber can be transformed into anything from a delicate scarf to a bulletproof vest. But different knitting ...

Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing a ...

HOLLAND, MI -- Liz Hilton, founder of Holland-based startup KnitIt, is making waves with her 3D knit baby swaddles, and she has big plans to put that same technology to work in health care and ...