3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide

Post by paulluuk » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 6:06 AM UTC

ninalanyon wrote: post #70

paulluuk wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear. One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no idea what the hell is quality clothing. Clearly, expensive does not always mean high quality. And I'm not buying "brand" clothing either.

Buy second hand clothes. These are either very, very, cheap, and they last just long enough for me to get bored with them. Or they are merely fairly cheap and last almost forever because the stuff that quickly falls apart doesn't get resold, it gets discarded by the person who bought it new. In either case I have lengthened the time between manufacturing and landfill and had the enjoyment of clothes that I would othe…

Post by ninalanyon » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #31

teiferer wrote: post #2

I 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…

Knitting by hand is for fun, with a by product of getting clothes. No one does it to make all their clothes, it’s highly impractical in this day and age.

Post by elil17 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC

torlok wrote: post #23

elil17 wrote: post #8

So 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…

Which clanker generated this slop for you? I pasted the first 2 lines of this post into the free Gemini version and got 3 out of 4 of these theories.

Post by dexihand » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 9:39 AM UTC

soco wrote: post #4

teiferer wrote: post #2

I 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.

Post by ChadNauseam » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #45

idiot900 wrote: post #30

This is an ad for a company that drop ships their product from another company that has made its business on offering production and fulfillment of canned (but customizable) 3D knit styles.

Very very much an ad, including the current top level comment from the looks of things. It’s only missing em dashes. At least someone cleaned those out.