A new software system can translate a wide variety of 3D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that allow a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. “Knitting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an industry that changes so rapidly, it can be staggering to realize how close we still are to the garment-making ways of the 1800s. While many processes have indeed modernized and digitized, there ...

Barcelona-based designer Gerard Rubio is developing a knitting machine that will make you a jumper at the click of a button; it’s like a 3D printer for woolly clothes. Called OpenKnit, the basic ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction – forward, backward and diagonal – so users can construct a wide variety of shapes ...

Your grandma’s pastime could soon be a game changing trend in the apparel industry. That’s because researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Textile Lab have figured out how to translate 3D designs ...

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 ...