Knitwear is a fast-growing fashion category. The research and creative work Jackie Kilmartin, Fashion Design faculty and director of the SHIMA SEIKI Fashion Knitting Lab, is focused on includes ...

When I was a baby, my grandma knit me an impressive range of little booties and blankets. I’ve been worried that I will utterly fail at my grandmotherly duties when I eventually have grandchildren ...

The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

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

The URBN Center's spacious design and construction labs are flooded with natural light and provide a place for students to work and exchange ideas with their cohort. In the SHIMA SEIKI Fashion Knit ...

Knitting machines speed up the knitting process significantly, so they’re great for when you’re pressed for time. They’re also ideal for people who can’t knit by hand for any reason. However, before ...

A new materials technique has taken cues from Grandma's yarn bag and cutting-edge technology, and it could see us 'solid knitting' whole furniture sets, as well as the fabrics that cover them. What's ...

Those of us who to textile work may own a sewing machine and even if we’re really into it and have the funds, an overlocker. But there’s another machine in that field that few of us will have, and ...

When you think about knitting, you might picture grandmas clicking big wooden needles or something wintery, like a snow-covered lodge. But knitting is everywhere, producing just about everything you ...