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"Unfolding Lace Top" swatch to test the unfolding stitch structure. a. before, and b. after dissolving the swatch in cold water.
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Motivated by the growing use and incorporation of bio-based materials in textiles and wearables, we explore one of these materials' quality, dissolving, as an intentional affordance to design ephemeral wearables for fashion. We developed techniques to make biofoam strings, resembling yarns, and used them to weave, crochet, or knit three wearables:...
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... designed this wearable to use dissolving to alter the shape of the wearable (Figure 1b). Combining various hand-knitting techniques, we first created an unfolding stitch structure and knitted a sample swatch to test the combination of stitches and yarns (Fig. 4). The structure consists of densely knitted cords with lace bands in between. The lace portions use thinner yarn and open stitches to create a significantly lighterweight fabric. The biofoam yarn is worked into the fabric between cords, scrunching the lace into a pleat. As seen in Figure 1b, we knitted a bra, for demonstration purposes, ...
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... of woven structures leads to full garment disassembly, knitting or crocheting allowed us to explore other design attributes such as revealing or unfolding. For instance, crocheting with blended biofoam and cotton yarn, allowed us to form a tight mesh, that after dissolving the mesh freed up and became airier showing a change in stitch density (Fig. 1b, Fig ...
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