Knitting
chair dress
Front and back of the double knit

 

Knitting

chair dress

What I wanted to emphasise with these designs is the change of shape/form that is possible through the technique of knitting.

As starting point I chose the principal of circular knitting for the ā€œchair dressā€. The wide upper part and the narrowing in the ā€œwaistā€ in Arne Jacobsenā€™s chair, make it especially interesting for this ā€œdressā€

Inspiration

The 2-colour effect comes from plating.

Because with circular knitting the yarn and the number of needles determine the size, and you cannot change this, I have developed the idea further by means of a kind of circular knitting on a flatbed knitting machine.

Product

The idea for the chair-dress originated in a sample for a ā€˜tube topā€™. This is a stretchy little sweater produced with elastic yarn on a circular knitting machine with a small diameter. The resulting tube knit I pulled over an Arne Jacobsen chair. Interesting feature of this chair is its broad top, its slimming waist, and its again broadening seat.

The elastic I wanted to replace because of its limited durability. I alternated the stitching of the knit in face- and back loop, which also creates stretch. However, this was not completely to my satisfaction, which is why I also made a variation with increases. The work is knit from bottom to top.

Development

Plating is a technique to produce a knit that has a different colour, or type of yarn on each side. Two different yarns are knitted at the same time. One yarn always covers the other; this is achieved by a yarn feeder with two openings.

On a flat-bed knitting machine the yarn, by means of a yarn feeder, is inserted into the needles and passes a needle bar from left to right and back. A bar is a metal surface with needles.

On a V-bed knitting machine you have an upper- and an under bar.
You can knit the yarn from upper bar to under bar which produces a kind of circular knit.

Technique
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