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 ...

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With increasing consumer demand for sustainable and aesthetically pleasing products, leading brands and retailers focus on reducing their offerings’ environmental impact. Credit: Karl Mayer Group A ...

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 ...

At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

Tamsin Blanchard meets the young designers using 3D technology and social media to breathe new life into knitwear I am in one of the subterranean rooms that form part of the backstage rabbit warren of ...

We’ve seen our fair share of interesting knitting hacks here at Hackaday. There has been a lot of creative space explored while mashing computers into knitting machines and vice versa, but for the ...