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 ...

It turns out a knitting machine can work a bit like a 3-D printer. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Textiles Lab have created an algorithm that translates 3-D shapes in computer models into ...

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 ...

*I should probably find a way to stop grinning at this, as it's not in fact funny. It's sublime. *For instance, using this insight, one oughta be able to knit up a giant steel sock pronto using ...

Kara Mollano, a teacher at Second Start, poinyd up at the Knit Democracy Together State House knitting model at the New Hampshire State Library on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The project was part of a ...

Knitted fabrics like a scarf or socks are highly elastic, capable of stretching as much as twice their length, but individual strands of yarn hardly stretch at all. It’s the way those strands form an ...