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Terry Loops Add a Textured Back to Wool Jersey
A looped reverse gives wool jersey another construction option for casual knitwear.
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How Knit and Purl Columns Give Rib Fabric Its Shape
Rib knitting alternates raised knit columns with recessed purl columns. The resulting structure explains its lateral contraction and common use at garment edges.
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Double Knitting Gives an Urban Hoodie Two Different Faces
A Shima Seiki development collection uses double knitting and inlay to engineer wool garments.
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Fully Fashioned Knitwear Takes Shape Before Assembly
Shaped knitted panels create sweaters with distinctive fashioning marks beside their seams.
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Knitted Channels Bring Ventilation to Wool Shoe Uppers
Vivobarefoot combines highly twisted wool yarn with shaped flatbed knitting for footwear.
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Mapped Mesh Structures Shape a Merino Cycling Bib
A prototype cycling collection integrates support, ventilation and grip through knitted zones.
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What Makes Poplin a Plain-Weave Fabric
Poplin describes a woven construction rather than a single fiber. Its crosswise texture changes with the size and composition of the yarns.
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Continuous Lyocell Filament Bypasses Staple Yarn Spinning
Spinnerets create parallel filaments that can proceed directly into ready-to-use yarns.
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Hank Dyeing Builds a Worn Effect into Merino Yarn
Special yarn colouring and wet finishing produce vintage variation in wool knitwear.
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Whole-Garment Knitting Shapes Clothing on the Machine
Multiple needle beds and programmed yarn paths reduce cutting and sewing operations.
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Pretreatment and Knitting Create a Wash-Down Fabric Effect
Lenzing combines yarn preparation with knitting choices to develop vintage-looking lyocell textiles.
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One-Piece Knitting Shapes Non-Medical Wool Masks
Three-dimensional knitting and layered fabrics offer different construction routes for reusable masks.
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Circular Knitting Uses Gauge to Adjust Fabric Weight
Needle arrangement and gauge help distinguish single and double circular knitted fabrics.
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Double-Face Knit Fabrics Offer Another Route to Tailoring
A capsule collection combines Merino wool with a second knitted TPU yarn layer.
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Floating Wool Yarn Creates an Exceptionally Light Knit
A Woolmark Prize development places superfine Merino decoratively above a monofilament support.
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Wet Processing Builds Stretch into Woven Lyocell
Controlled fibre swelling increases widthwise yarn crimp in an engineered woven fabric.
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Laser Treatment Reveals Layers in Woven Merino
A combination of fabric engineering and laser processing develops relief on wool cloth.
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Matte Lyocell Fibres Change How Indigo Denim Reflects Light
A fibre-level development reduces sheen while retaining lyocell's familiar smoothness.
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Satin-Style and Plain-Weave Fabrics: Taffeta Combines a Plain Weave with a Crisp Handle
Taffeta is a smooth, crisp fabric associated with a plain weave. A shiny appearance is not a reliable substitute for identifying a weave.
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Spun-Dyed Modal Places Indigo into Fibre Before Fabric Making
Indigo Color technology changes the point at which denim's characteristic colour is introduced.
