Clothing looks and feels best when it is tailored, but few people use tailoring services with any sort of regularity. The reasons for that are numerous, and likely involve inconvenience as much (or ...

[Image: Tailored Industries]To combat this waste, some startups are trying to convert the industry to an on-demand model. Tailored Industry, a knitwear manufacturing startup based at the Brooklyn Army ...

At the Ministry of Supply store in Boston, a knitting machine about the size of a grand piano is parked next to the checkout counter. It’s an unusual look: industrial textile manufacturing equipment ...

3D printing is great if you need to create something made of plastic or even metal or ceramic out of thin air. But what if you want something fuzzier and warmer? Something, like say, a hand-knit scarf ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adidas has been testing a store where shoppers can design a sweater, have a body scan to determine fit and get it knitted by a state-of-the-art machine within hours, as the German ...

The Knitbot recognizes and responds to hashtags and will continue knitting Christmas sweaters right up to December 6 as part of the beer brand’s responsible drinking campaign. As well as the ...

Building a machine to construct high-end Prada sweaters was just the start. Now Mitsuhiro Shima, who took over his dad’s knitting-machine firm three months ago, is setting his sights on -- of all ...