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COI synopsis: Designs into stitches. Scanmaster is a knitting machine which produces patterned garments in four colours automatically at one end from a design painted on squared paper fed in at the other.
COI synopsis: Most garments through the centuries have been made from cloth, but the way the cloth looks and feels is subtly changing in technology’s hands.
COI synopsis: Most clothing sizes are based on statistics of height and girth as interpreted by each manufacturer, but at London’s Royal College of Art they are recording dimensions, shape, and even skin...
COI synopsis: Much of the art of the dressmaker lies in forming a flat piece of cloth so that it fits over the curves of the body. In the future one mould may form the cloth as effectively as paper patterns,...
COI synopsis: The supersonic age takes technology to extremes of temperature, and if the jet set traveller is to keep up he must streamline his responses to changing climates. Clothing designed at...
COI synopsis: An electronic knitting machine takes the clicking of needles a long way from the days of one plain, one purl... Fairisle sweaters are a mere limbering-up exercise. But the designers of knitting...
COI synopsis: Sweaters knitted from feathers and pineapple stalks are on the way. A new kind of knitting machine can knit a much wider range of fibres than conventional machines. The new knitting machine has...
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