[HN Gopher] 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
Author : ChadNauseam
Score : 208 points
Date : 2026-03-12 08:27 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| teiferer wrote:
| I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to
| automate knitting!
|
| Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting
| something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details
| you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the
| quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and
| knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've
| knitted. Letting a machine do that is completely missing out.
|
| I feel similarly about AI generated music. Taking the musician
| out of the loop misses the point of the whole thing.
| tecleandor wrote:
| But this talks about the mass production of garments. Nobody at
| the Zara factory is having a quiet evening knitting on the
| sofa.
|
| The idea of this is: knitting on demand, customizable, less
| waste.
|
| You can still knit your things at home if you want to do your
| own stuff, or relax a bit...
| soco wrote:
| The goal is the path... a concept often foreign to western, to
| contemporary, to techies.
| 127 wrote:
| No, it doesn't miss the point. Different people have different
| interests. Knitting just hits more overlapping Venn diagrams
| than just one.
| mkreis wrote:
| Depends whether you see it as a production method or an
| art/recreational activity. There can be both, and don't worry,
| hand-made products will always have a special value. Even if
| everybody can order custom made knitted sweater from a machine.
| elil17 wrote:
| Most garments have been knitted on knitting machines since the
| 1850s
| Poacher5 wrote:
| This is knitting as a method of mass-production. It's not
| cannibalizing hobby knitters making hats and gloves for their
| loved ones at Christmas. The comparison to AI music doesn't
| work because that _is_ trying to occupy the same space as
| musical artists.
| 2muchcoffeeman wrote:
| Knitting by hand is for fun, with a by product of getting
| clothes. No one does it to make all their clothes, it's highly
| impractical in this day and age.
| elil17 wrote:
| So in theory 3D-Knitting can produce a made-to-measure garment on
| demand, and has been able to for years.
|
| And yet, no one actually offers to sell you a made-to-measure
| knitted garment. Why?
|
| A few theories: - Knits are stretchy so there's limited demand
| for M2M - DFM/software issues - no one actually knows to generate
| a pattern from a set of sizes without human intervention - Issues
| with OEE - it's inefficient to wait for orders to produce the
| garments because the capital cost of the machines is so high. -
| Logistics - you don't want to deal with shipping everyone the
| right order.
| torlok wrote:
| Which clanker generated this slop for you? I pasted the first 2
| lines of this post into the free Gemini version and got 3 out
| of 4 of these theories.
| zokier wrote:
| So this is an ad for company that purchased an off-the-shelf
| industrial knitting machine and is trying to sell it as some new
| novel innovation with cringe "3d knitting" branding. If you go to
| the the manufacturer site you can find same talking points and
| plenty of logos: https://www.shimaseiki.com/wholegarment/
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| I think this is an uncharitable view of the information on
| offer. The linked page similarly brands the technique with a
| trademarked WHOLEGARMENT label, claiming it's a world first, so
| it doesn't seem a stretch to see how these folks got to
| claiming it's novel and making a bit of a todo about how it's
| different. It also seems to have some business model
| implications that on first approximation look less than
| favorable, so I think that helps to justify the need for a
| position paper like this.
| yorwba wrote:
| According to the Shima Seiki history page:
| https://www.shimaseiki.com/company/dna/history/ it was a
| world first in 1995. That doesn't make it novel anymore in
| 2026.
|
| I would nonetheless find it interesting to read an "ultimate
| guide" explaining how the knitting machines work, but this
| ain't it.
| tecleandor wrote:
| But the site doesn't say anything about being new, and in
| fact says it was invented in 1995: When Was
| 3D-Knitting Invented? The concept of 3D-knitting
| was first envisioned and then developed by the
| Japanese company SHIMA SEIKI. They launched their first
| WHOLEGARMENT knitting machine at the ITMA trade fair
| in 1995.
| dogtimeimmortal wrote:
| These are not cheap machines! Looking around online, i
| found a lot of 4 Shima Seiki machines listed for $40k! If
| someone is interested getting into knitting, I would
| recommend starting with some cheap hand-crank machines from
| a brand like Sentro. You will learn a lot more, and there
| is a lot you can do with knit tubes. If absolutely don't
| want a tube, you can get a so-called panel machine. I think
| you can find one on Amazon or Etsy - i forget the listing i
| saw, but it was like $500(much less than a Shima Seiki).
|
| Here are a couple useful sites to get started:
|
| https://machineknitting.fandom.com/wiki/Machine_Knitting_Wi
| k...
|
| https://www.knittingparadise.com/forums/machine-
| knitting.20/
| meigwilym wrote:
| Then perhaps the poster is drawing attention to the clever
| marketing, rather than the machine itself?
| criticas wrote:
| No, the bottom of the page says they subcontract production. So
| it's an infomercial for a company that markets sweaters they
| may or may not design. And they disclose that in the article,
| if very subtly.
| vessenes wrote:
| Absolutely no relation to these guys, but I have a hobby
| knitwear line and a longstanding fascination with Shima Seki.
|
| The SS machines are unique, as far as I know. They are also
| SUPER hard to work with -- the software is opaque. The design
| skills matter. Those design skills have to hook up to the SS
| machine design system.
|
| Hooking yarn is not the same thing as say bending steel - in
| terms of reliability, ease, variations. Lots of complexity
| here.
|
| There have been some attempts at doing 3d knitting direct to
| retail, I recall an MIT startup that had a boutique on Newbury
| street, and eventually went D2C only, as well as some European
| brands.
|
| The SS machines are a little bit of a product in search of a
| market as far as I can see -- they are amazing, they waste very
| little product, in _theory_ unique, custom garments can be put
| out rapidly. In practice, they seem to be used as small-run /
| custom-run tools -- but the only way to provide that is to have
| skilled designers and engineers -- hence the middle layer.
|
| Yes, I want one.
| haritha-j wrote:
| They pitch this as the panacea to fast fashion, but surely the
| solution to fast fashion is just to not buy and throw away so
| many clothes? I don't believe we buy cheap clothes because we
| can't find good quality clothes that last, but because we like
| owning lots of clothes and keeping up with trends. When my last
| laptop broke I was kind of happy. I thought "ooh now I can
| upgrade to a shiny new laptop guilt-free". I think that's the
| real problem.
| paulluuk wrote:
| I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within
| months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I
| bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear.
|
| One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no idea
| what the hell is quality clothing. Clearly, expensive does not
| always mean high quality. And I'm not buying "brand" clothing
| either.
| kace91 wrote:
| Another problem is the dive to the bottom that the industry
| has suffered.
|
| Your experience is very common, I have a fake nike sweatshirt
| I bought more than a decade ago from a random street seller
| (emergency on a trip) which still outlasts current brand
| clothes.
|
| Consumers' ignorance is not the problem, it used to be
| generally true that the more expensive item was better. Every
| brand has seemingly decided to burn their furniture to heat
| the house though, and what we experience is not as much
| consumer ignorance as it is a lack of names deserving trust.
| IAmBroom wrote:
| I've been trying to buy winter coats at end of season
| (coincidentally; not chasing sales), and one thing is
| consistent: fabric content is only hinted at. "Full wool" but
| "slightly stretchy" - possible with a broadcloth woven wool,
| but more likely "full"!=100%. "Cashmere" at prices that can
| (at best) be 10% cashmere, but might be 2% just to avoid
| outright fraud.
|
| I bought a really good-looking dark blue fedora; I received a
| really good-looking black fedora a size-and-a-1/2 too big. I
| had to fight them at the credit card level, because they
| offered me half off at best for a hat I can't wear.
|
| What is inconsistent: only some of them are fraudulent
| fronts. I'd guess about 25-50% right now, based on my recent
| shopping experiences. But not all: I ordered some expensive
| gloves; their advertised fit was wrong; we settled on 50% off
| (I /can/ wear them, but it's not ideal, and their return
| policy clearly required me to ship back). That firm had shite
| measurement guides, but honest merchant fronting.
|
| I've ordered super-cool button-front shirts that ended up
| being tissue-like fabric. Grrr...
|
| Speaking of fabric... Amazon folded Fabric.com into their
| Borg cube, and you CANNOT buy fabric by weight online - for
| some goddamn reason. I want to buy 100% white cotton for a
| play costume, and need it thicker - between sheeting and
| terrycloth; closer to the latter; Nothing else really matters
| to me about it. But can I determine the cloth
| thickness/weight? Nope.
|
| So: 50% swindlers; 75% idiots; buy clothes in person or else
| expect to throw a certain amount away.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| >I bought a really good-looking dark blue fedora; I
| received a really good-looking black fedora a size-
| and-a-1/2 too big. I had to fight them
|
| Ah, very relatable...
|
| >buy clothes in person or else expect to throw a certain
| amount away.
|
| That's reasonable.
| ninalanyon wrote:
| In Europe if a garment says 100% New Wool it had better be
| just that. I have several coats with varying proportions of
| wool, nylon, etc. All bought secondhand and of very high
| quality compared to the price I paid.
|
| Of course they aren't the latest fashion but clothes that
| last are by definition out of fashion for most of their
| existence.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| They knew what "slow fashion" was 100 years ago when shirt
| collars and sleeve cuffs were _turned_ to double the life of
| the garment.
| jbaber wrote:
| This happened to me.
|
| I tried to be a good boy and wrote to the company asking for
| zipper parts to fix it and they told me to buy another
| jacket.
|
| So I looked for companies that advertise repairability and
| found Patagonia made the most believable claims. Quite
| reasonable now that I'm old and rich, but I wouldn't have had
| the choice when young and poor.
| padolsey wrote:
| Yep :/ There are just no good heuristics left for quality
| clothing. It's horrible. One thing I do genuinely have good
| experience with is Japanese denim. But that's about it.
| cannonpr wrote:
| A "quality" jacket in the 1930s would cost 300-400$ or more
| inflation adjusted, it would also look less fashionable
| today, and feel somewhat less comfortable due to several
| concessions for durability in design. A durable quality
| jacket back then was also holding a majority market position,
| rather than being a niche good, which means that "quality
| clothes" do still seem to exist, but I'm always looking at
| 500-600$ for durable jeans or coats.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| >but I'm always looking at 500-600$ for durable jeans
|
| tf.
|
| That's clearly you looking for a specific fashion or
| intending to pay as much as you can.
|
| Triple Aught Design jeans are $150 to $250 and I am
| skeptical you have anything that is outlasting them. Others
| brands surely as well. Seems to me you are still stuck in
| the "if it costs more..." line of thinking.
| cannonpr wrote:
| No, I am just buying import Japanese jeans from the folk
| that bought all of the original high quality jeans making
| machines when the Americans moved to the flexi stuff, the
| jeans I buy last with next to no damage for 10-15 years
| despite near daily wear. I will grant you that I am
| paying a premium for both import, and a particular
| quality of fabric, but honestly I look like farmer Joe
| mostly.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| I recently ordered some Levis that I'm happy with, but I
| think there's also a limit for me in that certain life-
| things can happen that will end a garment regardless of
| how much was paid for it or how much it was babied.
|
| I'm pretty disciplined about wearing a bib in the kitchen
| these days, but you can still get a glass of wine on it
| at the dinner table, or sparks from a campfire, or a
| cycling wipeout. Those are annoying at the best of times,
| but particularly if it ends a garment that you paid 3-5x
| normal price for specifically so you could have it
| forever.
| khimaros wrote:
| having burned though easily 10 pairs of Triple Aught
| pants of various designs, they are well made and
| attractive, but durability is not an outlier from my
| experience. each design consistently fails in the same
| area with regular use. i tend to repurchase the designs
| that fit and function well, but they all inevitably fall.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| I've started buying "nicer" things purely for fit reasons,
| like I've realized that I'm a lean 6' guy with a long torso,
| so for shirts and especially sweaters a medium is too short
| and a large is too baggy-- the correct size for me in off-
| the-rack items is a _tall medium_ , and that's definitely not
| available everywhere.
|
| So I'm extremely happy with a Land's End quarter zip that I
| picked up recently, and I hope that's a well-made piece that
| will last a while, but overall I completely agree that mass-
| produced clothing is a market for lemons; no one can tell
| what the good stuff is, so it's all assumed to be garbage and
| priced accordingly.
| ninalanyon wrote:
| Buy second hand clothes. These are either very, very, cheap,
| and they last just long enough for me to get bored with them.
| Or they are merely fairly cheap and last almost forever
| because the stuff that quickly falls apart doesn't get
| resold, it gets discarded by the person who bought it new.
|
| In either case I have lengthened the time between
| manufacturing and landfill and had the enjoyment of clothes
| that I would otherwise not have been able to afford along the
| way.
| J1philli wrote:
| I think my parents knew this. I grew up with second hand
| clothes almost exclusively and didn't really know until I
| asked my parents about it when I was older. It is a great
| strat to find quality clothes.
| starvar2 wrote:
| Honestly, even "good" brands seem to make a lot of low quality
| items these days. I honestly find it hard to find good,
| lasting, clothes.
| _flux wrote:
| As I understand it, a big part of produced clothing just goes
| straight to waste to begin with. If everything was created on-
| demand, it would minimize that kind of waste.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| That would be great, a lot of clothes are made at sizes that
| don't sell very well and which get discounted, then discarded
| if they don't sell.
|
| However, made on demand will likely cost more, plus you can't
| fit items first. Unless they make items for fitting which you
| can then order to have manufactured.
|
| But yeah the main thing is that on-demand can never compete
| with mass production even if a big part of the mass produced
| stuff is discarded.
| reverius42 wrote:
| From 3d printed clothing, the obvious next step should be
| to have your phone take a 3d scan of you, and send it to
| the clothing designer to print it to your actual body size
| and shape. We could have truly unique sizing (none of this
| S/M/L/XL stuff)!
| IAmBroom wrote:
| Yes, and people have been chasing that Grail for decades.
| It's always right around the corner. (Despite what
| another poster said, it IS being pursued commercially.
| And unobtainable so far.)
| h2zizzle wrote:
| Edge case: people who are in the process of changing
| their body size/shape. Growing children, people losing
| weight, people gaining weight (they're out there), will
| all occasionally want to buy for where their body is
| _going_ to be in the future, not where it is now. How to
| accommodate them?
| _flux wrote:
| I'm sure models predicting how their body changes (based
| on various parameters and previous scans of the
| particular person and other people) could be built,
| allowing to optimize for longest time period of "decent
| fit" at the cost of "perfect fit now".
| Perseids wrote:
| > on-demand can never compete with mass production even if
| a big part of the mass produced stuff is discarded.
|
| This is definitely not universally true. E.g. photos are
| very cheaply printed on demand. Even on-demand books are
| printed at reasonable prices. Sure, mass production is
| cheaper (both for books and pictures), but the value
| difference of the individual product is high enough to
| bridge the price gap.
|
| For cloth this area has found little exploration. TFA
| covers production at niche scale. If you would mass produce
| the looms to reduce the capital expense and heavily lean
| into customer value, e.g. individual fittings via 3d scans,
| as my sister comment proposes, or even just letting me
| customize my sweater with motive, color choice, garment
| etc., this could radically change the cost to value ratio.
| The company that has published TFA sells extremely bland
| apparel in a shop that looks just like any mass produced
| clothing shop and leaves _all_ of the customer value of
| custom production on the table.
|
| Last but not least: This "3d knitting" seems to need only a
| fraction of the labor of traditional sewed clothes. If
| textile production didn't default to underpaid labor under
| precarious working conditions in low income countries, it
| would probably already be cheaper.
| IAmBroom wrote:
| "If" is doing a lot of hold-your-breath, make-a-wish work in
| that sentence.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| > As I understand it, a big part of produced clothing just
| goes straight to waste to begin with.
|
| My niece runs a business that relies on the way we discard
| clothes. She buys clothes from suppliers in India who source
| them from the bales of discarded clothes sent to them from
| Europe. Her suppliers have in effect sorted through the
| mountain of discards to find the ones that have sufficient
| value to sell back to us. She specifically buys clothes that
| have 'vintage' appeal (think tailored jackets rather than
| hoodies) and sells them primarily to students in a northern
| English city. Her business has done well enough to move from
| market stalls to a dedicated high street store and she is
| just branching out into 'vintage' kids clothes.
| Zababa wrote:
| > surely the solution to fast fashion is just to not buy and
| throw away so many clothes?
|
| "just don't do X" has basically never worked, it is not a
| serious solution to any problem.
| poszlem wrote:
| If "the solution" depends on people changing their behaviour on
| their own (ideally by lowering their expectations/do the harder
| thing/etc), it is almost never "the solution". It is usually
| just wishful thinking.
| esseph wrote:
| > I don't believe we buy cheap clothes because we can't find
| good quality clothes that last, but because we like owning lots
| of clothes and keeping up with trends.
|
| I will buy 5 things that last for 10 years if somebody gave me
| the option. Otherwise no, I'm not chasing fashion trends.
| ExxKA wrote:
| Why are you posting this to HackerNews?
|
| This isnt a hype board, for consumer products. Its supposed to be
| a tech first community.
| cm-t wrote:
| not sure to understand your point, knitting is not a tech field
| to you, or the content itself of the article is not tech
| oriented enough ?
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| I think maybe OP is knotted up about it pretty obviously
| being an ad. And rightfully so.
|
| Seriously 3D knitting... then going on about 2D patterns?
| willis936 wrote:
| Right now I'm doing the opposite: 3D printing a loom for hand-
| knit garments.
|
| https://www.printables.com/model/1483991-fall-is-looming-the...
| bregma wrote:
| Looms weave. You need a knitting machine to knit.
| serf wrote:
| that's true, but there are also like 200 sock knitting
| machine designs for FDM printing out there , maybe they're
| just slowly walking through all of the printable textile
| methods .
|
| loom is probably more satisfying to get working right, but
| the knitting machines are a joy to just stare at while
| they're working. Hypnotic.
| bregma wrote:
| Warping a loom by hand is a nightmare of repetitive
| tweaking, drawing each warp end through a heddle and
| adjusting the tension, one by one and back again. It's like
| restringing and tuning a guitar with _hundreds_ of strings.
|
| Even hand knitting is slightly better -- cast 250 stitches
| on to a circular needle then start the next row, only to
| find 10 rows later you've twisted it and are now knitting a
| Moebius sweater. Rip it out and repeat (sometimes referred
| to as "frogging" or "tinking").
|
| Yeah, knitting machines are satisfying in many ways.
| WillAdams wrote:
| Interestingly, this potentially has applications beyond clothing.
|
| A while back, Lee Valley did a 3D knitted chisel roll using
| Kevlar and other materials, in support of the Canadian company
| which invented the 3D knitting process used (unfortunately, at
| the time, I didn't have the money or need for --- I've since
| updated my woodworking toolkit and have a nice set of chisels
| which it would have been perfect for, except it was discontinued
| and is no longer available...)
| jeffreysmith wrote:
| I interviewed these guys for an article on the use of seaweed in
| yarn and fabric. And I bought the 3D knit seaweed sweater. Great
| team, with a lot of heart and good intentions.
|
| I'm also a hand knitter, and I don't really see any conflict
| between what they're doing and hand knitting. The grist of the
| yarn that you use as a hand knitter is generally much thicker
| than these machines commonly use. Commercial 3D knitting machines
| can do all of the stretchy, thin, and light stuff that the modern
| wardrobe is built around.
|
| As folks note, this technology was really pioneered by
| Shimaseki's work in Japan just decades ago. What OC and the
| similar Brooklyn-based Tailored Industry are really innovating on
| is the business model and connection to production process. Folks
| like this are really serious about not producing all of the waste
| that comes with most fashion production processes, and it shows
| up at several levels of the stack.
|
| For the HN crowd, TI's platform gives you more of a sense of why
| this sort of tech is really like the cloud for knitwear:
| https://tailoredindustry.com/platform
|
| Really a fascinating part of the global fashion production world,
| and one we would all benefit from seeing grow.
| vessenes wrote:
| I have a small sweater line I'm looking at doing in china right
| now but I have a long lasting fascination with the shima seki
| machines. If you were doing a short fashion run would TI be
| appropriate? How does one get their preferred yarn over to
| someone like TI?
| jeffreysmith wrote:
| They definitely are a powerful option for smaller scale runs.
| Very much optimized to have the unit economics and turnaround
| time work for smaller brands.
|
| I don't really know the answer around supplying your own
| yarn. I'd assume that's the abnormal case, but just a guess.
| chrisBob wrote:
| TI says that they offer custom yarn at their "Flagship"
| level, with a $20k upfront cost. Not sure how that compares
| to setting up production overseas.
|
| Look at their plan features chart:
| https://tailoredindustry.com/pricing/boutique
| idiot900 wrote:
| This is an ad for a company that drop ships their product from
| another company that has made its business on offering production
| and fulfillment of canned (but customizable) 3D knit styles.
| tecleandor wrote:
| Are they dropshipping preexisting designs, or are they making
| custom orders to a knitting company?
|
| Edit: totally sincere question, I don't know their process
| chrisBob wrote:
| Tailored Industries (the factory) says they have over 300
| products that are available immediately as white-labeled
| items at your custom online boutique. I don't know if any of
| _these_ designs were customized or not, but it is a
| surprisingly low startup cost to put together a shopify store
| and have Tailored Industries make your clothes on demand. You
| need some photos, and a cool looking brand, and they do all
| of the hard work. I wonder if I should open up my own shop...
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| Very very much an ad, including the current top level comment
| from the looks of things.
|
| It's only missing em dashes. At least someone cleaned those
| out.
| Krei-se wrote:
| My grandfather wrote a scifi utopia featuring printed-on-human
| garments similar to this ("Fahrt nach Futuras").
|
| So you would wake up, wash then stand on some platform and have
| your daily outfit knitted on you. Not sure how he worked around
| the risk of strangling though lol.
|
| Still funny. Thanks making it reality!
| mhb wrote:
| They seem to have left out the most interesting part - what does
| that machine cost?
| serf wrote:
| yeah. I was waiting for at least some kind of portal into the
| actual engineering and craft of the thing due to the name of
| the article, and was left with an advertisement flavored sour
| aftertaste.
| mastax wrote:
| Uniqlo offers a few 3D knit items, I've been meaning to try them
| out. Pretty basic styles though.
| patall wrote:
| Would be cool if it could also de-knit to modify clothing or
| reuse later. I.e if there is a hole: automatically deknit, splice
| in a replacement and fix it. Or if your belly growth: deknit and
| make that section slightly wider.
|
| And can you use finer yarn as well, like lace? The reason a
| sweater is knit like it is, is because of the tradeoff between
| knitting time and material needed. But if labor becomes free, you
| should be able to knit much bigger yet more delicate stuff.
|
| Edit: ah, deknitting is called frogging
| teiferer wrote:
| Funny that they speak so negatively about "fast fashion". If
| anything I would expect on-demand clothes production contribute
| to an _increase_ in that phenomenon, rather than the opposite.
| criticas wrote:
| Not at these prices :-) $150 - $200 for a sweater is not cheap.
| I think of fast fashion in terms of "how many times do I have
| to wear it to get my money's worth?" If the answer is less than
| the number of times I'd wear it in a year, it's fast fashion.
| Of course, if you're a thrift shop shopper, most fashion is
| fast fashion.
| criticas wrote:
| What a thoroughly modern world we live in. My first reaction was
| to check if this was an April Fool's blog post.
| jaustin wrote:
| Can anyone else comment on the durability claims here - I wear a
| lot of knitwear but in my experience it is almost never the case
| that they fail at the seams. Is the cut/sew mechanism of
| fabrication part of the weakening? (my jumpers tent to either
| wear through in elbows (patchable!) or ultimately get nicked/cut
| by something like a branch I failed to avoid).
| kdazzle wrote:
| I'm kind of in this space - 3d knitting is pretty interesting,
| but knitting a sweater like that takes a long time (I forget how
| long, but I think it's 1-2 hours), so it's not really a solution
| for working at any sort of scale. Unless you build up inventory
| or have a ton of machines. But the machines are super expensive
| compared to regular knitting machines.
|
| I also think that wholegarment knits look kind of cheap and that
| sewing actually adds structural integrity and durability to a
| garment.
|
| But anything knitting or clothes related is really fun and
| challenging and good for them for making a business out of it.
| janeerie wrote:
| "I also think that wholegarment knits look kind of cheap and
| that sewing actually adds structural integrity and durability
| to a garment."
|
| This is an ongoing discussion in the handknitting community.
| Knitters generally hate seaming (we're not sewers!) so the most
| popular patterns tend to be seamless. However, many argue that
| this leads to shapeless, saggy garments that aren't as
| wearable.
| olejorgenb wrote:
| "Most important 3D-knitting offers the promise of customization,
| or as we call it, the chipotle effect. Size and fit are the
| number one reasons people return clothes purchased online and in
| person.
|
| In the next few years, maybe even months, we'll be able to solve
| that problem for good. Since 3D-knitting allows us to knit on
| demand, we'll soon be able to offer every size imaginable in
| every style, material, and color."
|
| I had hoped they provided this already.
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