Reknit revolution: knitwear design for the domestic circular economy
- Twigger Holroyd, A
DOIAbstract
An ongoing initiative seeks to encourage hand knitters to expand their practices to encompass reknitting: the reworking of existing knitted items using knit-based skills, techniques and knowledge. Reknitting offers potential benefits in terms of promoting repair and re-use by individual users within the domestic sphere, thereby contributing to the "domestic circular economy". Although reknitting was a common element of hand knitting practice in the past, the knowledge of how to open, alter, unravel and reknit has largely been lost. This gap in practice presents a fertile challenge for contemporary knitted textile design. A first phase of activity saw the initial development and testing of reknitting techniques suitable for the garments ...