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 ...

To put clothes on their characters, computer graphic artists usually simulate cloth by creating a thin sheet, then adding some sort of texture. But that doesn't work for cable-knit sweaters. To make ...

If you've ever wanted a custom bobble hat but your knitting skills aren't up to par, let the robots do it. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Hoping for better brain health in old age? It might be time to learn to paint, knit or code. A study in Neurology finds people who enjoy artistic pursuits, crafting, socializing, or using computers ...