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Fully revised and updated, this new second edition of
Knitwear provides an invaluable introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. The book delves into the characteristics and behavior of many varieties of yarn and fiber, from traditional to contemporary, providing easy-to-follow diagrams, practical examples, and rich illustrations throughout.
Knitwear provides an insider's perspective into the knitwear industry and offers vital need-to-know information to readers on various career pathways, while highlighting contemporary machinery and tools available to knitwear designers today, demonstrating how to create knitting patterns, and laying out the basic techniques used on domestic machines.
Interviews with international designers, operating at different levels within the industry, provide further insight into the business of knitwear, and how to get a good head-start into the industry. A must-have handbook for the knitwear designer,
Knitwear is a beautiful and indispensable guide to this growing area of the fashion industry.
List of contents
1. Approach to knit
Reinventing traditional knitting
Yarns and fibres
Construction of knit
Developments in design and technology
Industry interview. Freddie Robins, Senior Tutor, Knitted Textiles, the Royal College of Art
2. Creative development
The brief
Research
Industry interview: Shelley Fox, Director of MFA Fashion Design and Society, The New School Parsons
Design development
Colour
Sculptural form
Presentation and evaluation
3. Construction through pattern and texture
The tension swatch
Basic techniques
Lace
Surface texture
Industry interview. Sophie Steller, Design Director
Patterned knits
4. Construction through shape
Partial knitting. three-dimensional effects
Creating flared shapes
Increasing and decreasing
Industry interview. Katherine Mavridis: Knitwear Designer
Draping and shaping
Creating a knitting pattern
5. Details and trims
Collars and neckbands
Industry interview. Hannah Jenkinson, Knitwear Designer
Buttonholes and fastenings
Hand-finishing techniques
Embellishment
6. Menswear
Historical contexts
Androgynous contexts
Industry interview: Cozette McCreery
Designer case study: Pa Byrne
Designer case study: Ella Nisbett
Designer case study: Ben McKernan
Designer case study: Latasha Hammond
Designer case study: Matilda Draper
Designer case study: Kendall Baker
Designer case study: Carlo Volpi
About the author
Juliana Sissons is a knitwear designer, educator and freelance pattern cutter with clients including Alexander McQueen, Shelley Fox, Hewitts of Savile Row and the BBC. Her work has also been commissioned by artists including Leigh Bowery, Andrew Logan, Britney Spears and style icon Isabella Blow. Juliana is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textiles at Nottingham Trent University, and also teaches at Manchester School of Art, the University of Brighton, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.
Summary
Provides the reader with the fundamental skills, knowledge and inspiration to design and create their own innovative knitted textiles. This book offers an introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. It describes the varieties of yarn and fibre, their characteristics and their behaviour, from the traditional to the contemporary.
Foreword
This practical introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design is designed to inspire readers and provide them with all the skills to design and create their own innovative knitted textiles.
Additional text
Each chapter ends with relevant interviews with top knitwear designers and graduates ... throughout it is
well illustrated with up-to-date runway designs, graduate collections, designer swatch samples and sketchbook work. If you want to understand the professional approach, are open minded and curious about different aspects of knit and want to explore and understand the process of design to inspire you to create contemporary knitted garments, then this is a comprehensive read.
