Krishma Singal operates the knitting machine she used to create fabric samples for the study. Singal, the first author of the study, recently graduated from Georgia Tech with her Ph.D. Credit: Allison ...

Intermediate knitting is where skill meets creativity—unlocking cables, lace, brioche, and colorwork that can transform projects into unique works of art. It’s the stage where knitters follow patterns ...

Knitted fabrics like a scarf or socks are highly elastic, capable of stretching as much as twice their length, but individual strands of yarn hardly stretch at all. It’s the way those strands form an ...

Dr. Lauren Niu is awarded with the Mario Markus Prize 2025 for her innovative insights into the geometry of knit fabrics. She discovered that even simple stitches, such as knit and purl, lead to ...