Managing Effective Communication in Knitwear Design

Design on Knitwear Fashion

Knitwear fashion owns both the characters of knitted garments and fashion. Its unique fabrics, colors, shapes and technology, as well as casualness and comfortableness to wear, attract people’s hearts on beauty and it becomes popular rookie. This paper, based on the designer's point of view, through market research, focuses on the analysis of the characteristics of knitwear fashion, fabric choi...

Expertise and Creativity in Knitwear Design

As commercial knitwear designers gain experience, many appear to lose their creativity. They often find they have gone stale, and need to change jobs to find fresh challenges. But although designer burnout is a significant phenomenon, experienced designers gain both a broader understanding of their design context and thus a more sophisticated understanding of design problems, and develop expert...

Diverse communication styles are most effective for managing multigenerational staff.

CAD Systems and the Division of Labour in Knitwear Design

The design of knitted garments is an activity shared by knitwear designers (who are almost all young and female) and knitting machine technicians (who are almost all male and usually older). The process involves programming knitting machines using CAD systems, which are designed for and used by the technicians. The designers get much less training and access to the CAD systems than they want. T...

Realistic Rendering of Knitwear

Efficient and realistic rendering of knitwear is of great interest especially in the context of ecommerce. Computing geometry play key role in the generation of realistic images, and also has important application in real-time rendering. This paper presents a method for rendering realistic knitwear. Triangles are used to subdivide the yarn surface so that graphics can be obtained quickly and ef...