Vanocuver, Nov. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global knitted fabric market size was USD 27.16 Billion in 2022 and is expected to register a revenue CAGR of 4.7% during the forecast period. The ...

A good sweater is like a cozy hug made out of yarn. For that, you can thank friction. A new study reveals how knit fabrics can take on versatile shapes that allow them to conform to the contours of a ...

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 ...

The next time you go to buy a new sweatshirt, you’re likely to encounter a few popular fabrics: French terry, fleece-back and double-face. Though all of them are designed to handle the stresses of ...

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 ...

Knitted fabrics are hierarchically structured materials exhibiting a complex set of structure-property-behavior relations driven by yarn-level interactions. Compared to other materials such as ...