Colours enhancing the season

The yarn collections for Autumn-Winter 21.22 have invested in yarns that are timeless but reinventing them through creative and exclusive colour effects. Colours are helping us to feel good, to face the difficult times we are living with a positive attitude, to be expressed in new combinations, mixes of solid shades and colourful shadings. To…

Introducing @vicky.knits

Viktorija Mineikyte is an ex-FTY’s contestants. She now makes handmade knitwear with fun vibrant colours. She has created her Instagram page (@vicky.knits) with the hope to help the community with designs, patterns, and technique tutorials. In this issue we have meant to know more about her story and passion… How did your studies at NCAD…

How to communicate sustainability

Sustainability has become a buzzword over the years. All the indicators tell us that the future belongs to companies authentically committed to sustainability meant in its three key-dimensions: environmental, social and economic-organizational. The critical point consists in that authenticity component we don’t always find in the communication of projects and initiatives “sold” as sustainable: one…

Aware knits

“Authentic humanism is built on the awareness of human insufficiencies.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Alpes, Soufflé Di.Vé, Butterfly We have always lived an anthropocentric life, focused on ourselves, supreme human beings and exclusive creators of the Universe. A relevance experienced as a simple superiority over the rest of the (animal) world or as a presumed pre-eminence…

In tune with natural sensitivity

It’s time to approach a new, more positive vision of the future, to relax and feel good, to appreciate the relationship between comfort and softness, moving towards smarter lightweight yarn qualities that embody elegance and preciousness. Suedwolle Group Italia Yarns can be designed to offer smooth tactility, comfort, wellness, shelter and cosiness, mainly in their…

FTY for New Designers

Let’s create a virtual place where schools, spinners and knitwear companies can develop positive connections for aspiring designers. After the positive experience of the FTY 2020 contest, we decided to invest even more in digital relations. The FB group broadens its scope and change its name: Feel the Yarn for New Designers is born. For…

Workshops start again from Asia

​Live meetings in Tokyo and at Shenzhen to show the A/W 2021/22 collections. Time has come for the workshops to restart: Tokyo (13th/14th October  – “Feel the Yarn – Workshop Yarns Tokyo – A/W 21.22 Move Beyond” – TOC Ariake, Convention Hall) and, in collaboration with ICE, Shenzhen (20th/21st October – “Workshop Feel The Yarn…