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From fair-isle to football boots
This was a talk that I gave at the Textile Institute. In it I discussed seamless knitting technologies, their historical roots in hand knitting methods, and the potential the ‘new’ technolgies are bringing to commerical knitwear and knitted outputs. The … Continue reading
Posted in clothing, Flechage, industrial knitting, Knitted textiles, knitting, knitting machine, knitwear, Machine knitting, Short-row shaping, Short-rows, technology, Textiles
Tagged circular knitting, clothing, fashion, knitted footwear, knitting, knitting technology, knitwear, Machine knitting, santoni, seamless knitting, shima seiki, wholegarment
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BBC online interview
More consideration seems to be being given to the problem of sizing in clothing; a subject of my own research that is close to my heart. The BBC reported that H&M have announced they will be changing their sizing in … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 ‘More or Less’ programme Friday 25th August, 16.30.
Earlier in the summer I was approached by the BBC to give an interview to about the history of clothing sizing. I was really keen to do this and try to put the problems so many of us have with … Continue reading
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Tagged bbcradio4, clothing, radio, research, sizing, teaching
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