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 ...

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 ...

Digital knitting is weaving its way straight into the mainstream this year, since furniture behemoth IKEA is using the newfangled technology to create 3D knit furniture. The chairs shown here are ...

If you consider yourself a master of the yarn but have grown tired of knitting socks, sweaters, and scarves, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Textiles Lab are about to breath new life into ...

If you find 3D printers to be just a little too coldly futuristic, this contraption might be more to your liking. Scientists from Cornell University have created a machine that knits solid 3D objects ...

Meet InverseKnit, a new tool developed by MIT that lets anybody design a pattern on a computer to 3D print a knitted garment. This 3D-Knit Chair Is Made From A Single Piece Of Technical Fabric It ...

This, the brand claims, is the first time that a 3D-knit construction has been used for the back of a rucksack. This technology that was utilised to construct the bag uses computer-controlled knitting ...

AN art gallery is staging a unique exhibition by a textile artist which ‘leaps out from the wall’. Steve Plummer specialises in ‘illusion knitting’, a process of knitting wool to create a 3D images.

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