3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
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#2I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting!
Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a machine do that is completely missing out.
I feel similarly about AI generated music. Taking the musician out of the loop misses the point of the whole thing.
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#3I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
But this talks about the mass production of garments. Nobody at the Zara factory is having a quiet evening knitting on the sofa.
The idea of this is: knitting on demand, customizable, less waste.
You can still knit your things at home if you want to do your own stuff, or relax a bit...
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#4I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
The goal is the path... a concept often foreign to western, to contemporary, to techies.
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#5I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
No, it doesn't miss the point. Different people have different interests. Knitting just hits more overlapping Venn diagrams than just one.
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#6I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
Depends whether you see it as a production method or an art/recreational activity. There can be both, and don't worry, hand-made products will always have a special value. Even if everybody can order custom made knitted sweater from a machine.
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#7I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
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#8So in theory 3D-Knitting can produce a made-to-measure garment on demand, and has been able to for years.
And yet, no one actually offers to sell you a made-to-measure knitted garment. Why?
A few theories: - Knits are stretchy so there's limited demand for M2M - DFM/software issues - no one actually knows to generate a pattern from a set of sizes without human intervention - Issues with OEE - it's inefficient to wait for orders to produce the garments because the capital cost of the machines is so high. - Logistics - you don't want to deal with shipping everyone the right order.
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#9I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the skills you work on perfecting, the quiet evening on the sofa or in a cafe with friends, chatting and knitting away, all that goes into a piece of clothing that you've knitted. Letting a ma…
Most garments have been knitted on knitting machines since the 1850s
Re: 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
#10So this is an ad for company that purchased an off-the-shelf industrial knitting machine and is trying to sell it as some new novel innovation with cringe "3d knitting" branding. If you go to the the manufacturer site you can find same talking points and plenty of logos: https://www.shimaseiki.com/wholegarment/