Anne Schramm, the founder of the Wommelsdorff label, says machinery is never used in the creation of its sweaters and accessories. By Heike Blümner Reporting from Berlin In 2011, Anne Schramm left a ...

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 ...

If you find 3D printers to be just a little too coldly futuristic, this contraption might be more to your liking. Scientists from Cornell University have created a machine that knits solid 3D objects ...

A warning has been issued for British Gas, EDF Energy, Ovo, E ON Next and Octopus customers using washing machines daily. Households using washing machines run the risk of massively adding to their ...

British energy group Octopus cited parallels with smartphones as it claimed a planned link up with Mingyang would provide “confidence” that Chinese wind turbines could be used safely in the UK power ...

For centuries, knitting has been a beloved pastime. Technological advancements, particularly in the form of knitting machines, have significantly simplified the process of crafting complex patterns ...

The word “Luddite” has become shorthand for technophobe, but the original rebels of the Industrial Revolution were actually battling a more insidious foe. Ned Ludd, the fictitious leader of the ...

Yes, you read that right– not benchy, but beanie, as in the hat. A toque, for those of us under the Maple Leaf. It’s not 3D printed, either, except perhaps by the loosest definition of the word: it is ...

The machine behind the man credited with helping start the Industrial Revolution returns to a Derbyshire town. The Framework Knitting Machine, invented in 1589, made socks and stockings but they had ...

In the core of a knitting machine or at the tips of a skilled knitter’s needles, a strand of fiber can be transformed into anything from a delicate scarf to a bulletproof vest. But different knitting ...

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