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Everything about Knitting
Method of forming fabric
Knitting is the process of interlooping a continuous length of yarn to create textile fabric made of rows of interconnected loops. Knitting can be done by hand, by machine or using one of a variety of frames developed for the purpose. When done by hand, one uses a pair of knitting needles where the loops are created one at a time. When done by machine the loops are created on hooks that work one entire row of knitting at a time. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: KnittingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Scalable spinning, winding, and knitting graphene textile TENG for energy harvesting and human motion recognitionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Vogue Knitting on the GoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Nano neuro knitting: Peptide nanofiber scaffold for brain repair and axon regeneration with functional return of visionCited 697 times
- Go sideways: Knitted fabricA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Basic knitted fabricsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of knit
Noun The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material.
Noun Material that has been, or is being knitted.
Noun overhead electrification wires, OHLE
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Nano neuro knitting: Peptide nanofiber scaffold for brain repair and axon regeneration with functional return of vision
A New Strategy to Microporous Polymers: Knitting Rigid Aromatic Building Blocks by External Cross-Linker
A Highly Stretchable and Washable All-Yarn-Based Self-Charging Knitting Power Textile Composed of Fiber Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Supercapacitors
Toward a comprehensive theory of child sexual abuse: A theory knitting perspective
Knitting and weaving artificial muscles
Highly Dispersed Pd Catalyst Locked in Knitting Aryl Network Polymers for Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reactions of Aryl Chlorides in Aqueous Media
The potential of knitting for engineering composites—a review
Layered microporous polymers by solvent knitting method
🆕 Influential since 2022
Scalable spinning, winding, and knitting graphene textile TENG for energy harvesting and human motion recognition
Additive Manufacturing of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators Based on Knitting Technology
Circuit Knitting With Classical Communication
3D Knitting for Pneumatic Soft Robotics
Tailoring COFs: Transforming Nonconducting 2D Layered COF into a Conducting Quasi-3D Architecture via Interlayer Knitting with Polypyrrole
📚 Books worth reading
Vogue Knitting on the GoTrisha Malcolm · 1999
Knitting for dummiesPam Allen · 2002
Fair Isle KnittingSarah Don · 1978
Knitting in VogueChristina Probert · 1982
The complete book of progressive knittingIda Riley Duncan · 1940
Mary Thomas's knitting bookThomas, Mary · 1938
A treasury of knitting patternsBarbara G. Walker · 1968
Vogue KnittingTrisha Malcolm · 1999
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🔗 Related topics
- Knitted fabric Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting, the process of inter-looping of yarns or inter-meshing of loops. Its properties are distinct from…
- Basic knitted fabrics Basic knitted fabrics include stocking stitch, reverse stocking stitch, garter stitch, seed stitch, faggoting, and tricot. In some cases, these fabrics…
- Knitting machine A knitting machine is a device used to create knitted fabrics in a semi or fully automated fashion. There are numerous types of knitting machines, ranging…
- Gauge (textile crafts) A gauge is the number of stitches/rows per inch (or centimeter) of a crochet or knitted item. In both crochet and knit, this is measured by making a gauge…
- Increase (knitting) In knitting, an increase is the creation of one or more new stitches, which may be done by various methods that create distinctive effects in the fabric…
- Binding off In knitting, binding off, or casting off, is a family of techniques for ending a column (a wale) of stitches. Binding off is typically used to define the…
- Entrelac Entrelac is a knitting technique used to create a textured diamond pattern. While the result resembles basket-woven strips of knitted fabric, the actual…
- Hand knitting Hand knitting is a form of knitting, in which the knitted fabric is produced by hand using needles. Flat knitting involves working back and forth in rows…