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For centuries, knitting has been a beloved pastime. Technological advancements, particularly in the form of knitting machines, have significantly simplified the process of crafting complex patterns ...

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ESCANABA — Lawrence “Larry” Klope’s passion and knack for working with antique sewing and knitting machines may be innate. Perhaps his interest in the subject material stemmed from growing up with a ...

The roughhouse charmer “Lilo & Stitch” from 2002, one of Disney’s more freewheeling animated 21st century mashups of slapstick and heartstring-plucking, has already spun off TV and sequel iterations ...

Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing a ...