At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

It turns out a knitting machine can work a bit like a 3-D printer. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Textiles Lab have created an algorithm that translates 3-D shapes in computer models into ...

One startup has been working toward scaling a plug-and-play way to connect designers’ creations with knitting manufacturers. At Sourcing Journal’s Los Angeles Sustainability Summit, Garett Gerson, ...

Artist [Petros Vrellis] has done something that we’ve never seen before: his piece “A New Way to Knit” lives up to its name. What he’s done is to take the traditional circular loom, some black thread, ...

This small business uses the newest knitting tech to crank out its apparel. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you. Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your ...