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 ...

There are three principal methods of manipulating fibers or yarns into textile fabrics: 1) Interweaving – two sets of straight threads intersecting at right angles. 2) Intertwining – threads ...

After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publishing seven foundational books that sold ...