ITHACA, N.Y. – A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction – forward, backward and diagonal – so users can construct a wide variety of shapes ...

With technology giving competition to the speed of light, we always keep a keen eye out for startups that are disrupting our world and our everyday lives through innovation par excellence. Keeping ...

A research team from Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University has developed a prototype knitting machine that can build arbitrarily rigid three-dimensional structures by layering stitches ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. As we enter the depths of winter, there’s no prospect more ...

Yes, you read that right– not benchy, but beanie, as in the hat. A toque, for those of us under the Maple Leaf. It’s not 3D printed, either, except perhaps by the loosest definition of the word: it is ...

Here’s a YouTube video of the garter transfer carriage in action, to make garter stitch fabric on a double bed Superba machine: See how much easier and faster the garter stitch is on the double bed ...

Those of us who to textile work may own a sewing machine and even if we’re really into it and have the funds, an overlocker. But there’s another machine in that field that few of us will have, and ...

As we enter the depths of winter, there’s no prospect more appealing than bundling up in a handmade, ultra-warm wool blanket. When the time comes for us to leave our cosy nests to brave howling winds ...