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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 ...

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The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Knitting is perhaps one of the most underratedly difficult ...

Using a pick or double-pointed needle, lift the bottom loop up and over the top loop on each of the four pegs until you have just the one loop left on each one. After a few rows of stitches, you’ll ...

The unruly stitch of a dragon first attracted Sabetta Matsumoto to the mathematics of knitting. Unlike the regimented stitches of a sweater that march two-by-two across a textile, the whiskers of this ...

Knitting may be an ancient manufacturing method, but one researcher believes that understanding how different stitch types determine shape and mechanical strength will be invaluable for designing ...

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 ...