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Knitwear production is one of the world’s largest design-driven industries. As well as being important, the knitwear design process involves a complex and interesting interaction between aesthetic and technical design, and a problematic interaction between aesthetic and technical designers.
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Eckert, C., Stacey, M. (1996). An Architecture for the Intelligent Support of Knitwear Design. In: Sharpe, J.E.E. (eds) AI System Support for Conceptual Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1475-8_5
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