As we enter the depths of winter, there’s no prospect more appealing than bundling up in a handmade, ultra-warm wool blanket.
Ultimately, Game of Wool has cast a valuable spotlight on a heritage craft under threat despite its global profile.
Those of us who to textile work may own a sewing machine and even if we’re really into it and have the funds, an overlocker. But there’s another machine in that field that few of us will have, and ...
A team of innovative engineers has developed a novel 3D stitching machine capable of producing complex shapes and structures.
When comparing knitting vs. crochet, both are skills that use balls of yarn to craft items by hand. Some beginners enjoy the greater control they have when knitting with two needles, while others ...
In a move to help reduce the textile industry’s carbon footprint, Lenzing has entered a partnership with a German textile machinery maker to adapt its equipment to handle wood-based specialty fibers ...
The machine behind the man credited with helping start the Industrial Revolution returns to a Derbyshire town. The Framework Knitting Machine, invented in 1589, made socks and stockings but they had ...
A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in wool.