A team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knit fabric response can be programmed. By establishing a mathematical theory of knitted materials, the researchers hope that ...

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 ...

Fig. 1: Knitted materials have elastic responses that can be programmed by the pattern of Ks and Ps. To facilitate the rational design of textiles, we need to understand the fundamental mechanics of ...