Tag: yarns
Pitti shows return in physical format
Following the Italian government’s recent decision to authorize the holding of international trade fairs in a physical form, from the middle of June 2021,...
Knitwear student Emma Price wins Yeoman Yarns Competition
Final year BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles students at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) recently had the opportunity to design and develop...
SPINEXPO Shanghai offers fresh stories in 2022
The SPINEXPO exhibition of March 2021 was greatly anticipated after a year of the ‘new normal’ with higher travel restrictions and faltering industry gatherings....
Reimagining textile waste: catching up with ‘Feel the Yarn’ finalist Amy...
Back in August KIC interviewed knitwear design graduate Amy Goacher. Having faced the challenges of designing her graduate collection remotely during the pandemic, Amy...
Pandemic proof Yarn Show successful for Knitwear Lab
Last week, Lynn Hinkelmann and Peter Wissman, representatives for some of Europe’s top spinners, presented the very latest yarn collections at Knitwear Lab in...
Knitwear Lab hosts in-house Yarn Show
The COVID safe exhibition will showcase the latest collections from some of Europe’s leading spinners of knitwear yarns.
Almere, Netherlands based Knitwear Lab is hosting...
Researching 2022 spring-summer yarns with yarnbank
Leading flat knitting machines and design systems manufacturer Shima Seiki, is holding an online seminar, to introduce the latest features of its yarnbank web...
Sustaining the fashion world at Pitti Filati
Pitti Immagine Connect, the digital multi-platform of the Florence shows was pressed into full service last year when lockdowns began. For 2021 the concept...
Shima Seiki launches Apex Fiz: Is this the texture focussed digital...
Beth Ranson reports
Shima Seiki’s high-tech flat knitting machines are programmed via the company’s ‘SDS-ONE Apex Series’ software, which designers also use to design and...
Fashion on the move – fabric and yarn trends from 2020...
Janet Prescott reports
Autumn 2020 flagged up the resilience of the European textiles industry, as shows switched online despite the pandemic, which in the summer...
