Knitwear

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.

Vorwort
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.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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