Mastering Machine Knitting - From the Thread to the Finished Garment (Broché)

This book is ideal for all fashion lovers who, while fascinated by knitted fabric, have not dared to venture into this field, as well as for advanced and professional knittrers who want to systematically round off their knowledge. It includes all the steps necessary to create a knitted garment, from the choice of yarn ton manufacturing apparel. For the first time, the author describes the various stitches in a clear and well-structured way, with a language of symbols developed for use with all kinds of studio and domestic knitting machines regardless of the brand : Brother, Silver Red, Passap, Coppo and Dibied.
The book includes examples of working with traditional matrials like wool, alpaca, cotton and linen but also encourages exeprimenting with paper, plastic materials and vegetal and mettalic yarns to create texture, three-dimensional affects and unsual volumes.