As well as being a popular and pleasant hobby, knitting is a thousand-year-old technology and, unlike weaving, it can produce loose yet extremely stretchable fabrics. Researchers in France have now ...

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 ...

A team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knit fabric response can be programmed. By establishing a mathematical theory of knitted materials, the researchers hope that ...