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Book Review: Fashion Knitwear Design

Celebrating the need for knitwear designers to be both fashion and textile creators, Fashion Knitwear Design encourages the understanding of the technicalities of knitting by offering a thorough overview of the complexities and heritage...

Shima’s Student Competition Selects Two Winners

This year’s Student Apex Competition for students based at UK Universities, organised by leading computerised flat knitting machinery manufacturer Shima Seiki Europe, awards two winners with a visit to the company’s head office in...

Love, Ecology and Fashion: Filati Be.Mi.Va’s SS20 Sustainable Presentation

Since 1960, Filati Be.Mi.Va has presented yarns both technical and fancy to the industry. Sourcing raw materials from around the globe and creating its yarns in Italy, Be.Mi.Va’s ethos values its tradition as an...

Manufacturing for the Future

Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) connects fashion designers with technology and manufacturing businesses at a day-long trade show on 3 April followed by CFE’s 14th FashTech meet-up. Taking place at LSO St Lukes in Old...

Classic Performance Meets Innovative Surface Design at Eurojersey

At ISPO Munich 2019, Anne Prahl caught up with Nello Marelli, Head of Creative Department at Italian warp-knit producer Eurojersey, to discover the 2020 Sensitive Fabrics collection and find out about the design inspiration...

Knitting Industry Creative Celebrates its First Birthday

Knitting Industry Creative is celebrating its first birthday this month. Launched on 1 March 2018, Knitting Industry Creative is fast becoming the go-to place for professionals, students and anyone else interested in all things creative...

New Features for Shima’s VR-knit.com

Leading computerised flat knitting technologist Shima Seiki, of Wakayama, Japan, has released a major update to its smart device app VR-knit.com. New features include an AR mode and ultra-realistic knit fabric viewer, enabling a...

Focus on Techtiles at SPINEXPO

SPINEXO, in collaboration with Studio Eva x Carola are presenting Techtiles, a project inspired by the SPINEXPO In Between theme. This project is a collaboration with the renowned knitting machinery manufacturer Santoni Shanghai and...

SPINEXPO Shanghai: Create and Educate

Encouraging creativity and promoting education about new technologies is at the heart of every SPINEXPO show. In this vein, organisers have this year collaborated with Nottingham Trent University and Winchester School of Art, both of...

Work in Progress: Xingchen Lu

The students from the School of Design at the Royal College of Art in London recently showcased some of their current developments during the Work in Progress show, which took place at the Kensington...