Knitwear Design and Other Applications

Catalog description

This course covers the design and creation of weft knit garments and other knit products via a variety of machine-knit shaping techniques. Students will work on hand-flat and electronic software driven machines to program and create knit panels and shaped garments. Draping, blocking, and linking techniques will be covered. Students are required to develop design ideas via mood board and sketchbook research and to make verbal/visual presentations of their work at regular critiques. As a graduate level course, there will be an emphasis on the use of knit structures for research.