Cheongsam Design And Practice On Flat Knitting Machine

As rapid development of globally fashion industry,knitwear is emerging new trends as outer wearing and fashionable dressing.At the same time,as representative clothing in China,cheongsam is progressively making a figure in world fashion stage.Traditional Chinese cheongsams characterize distinct native features of China.But as development of social economy,cheongsam faded away bit by bit from women's general wear due to its lower conformability.While today,with fast development of knitwear,the majority of knitting clothing design in domestic market is almost simple basis,or copy the design from overseas brand.And there is seldom original knit design with Chinese characters in the market.The author will explore the fashionable approach on cheongsam through this design and practice.To develop the flat knitting clothing with traditional Chinese character,the author will combine the traditional cheongsam with flat knitting machine technology all together.In addition,under the certain changes of cheongsam profile,the author found the richness of knitting techniques at the Chinese theme and utilized knitting good elastic feature to raise its comfort ability to a great extent.“Ling hua” Cheongsam series design and practice on flat knitting machine inspired by window“Ling hua” Cheongsam series design and practice on flat knitting machine inspired by window frame element—hexagon window grid in traditional Chinese garden,making it assembly with modern hexagon geometrical concept.Meanwhile,the author integrated Chinese flower-and-bird designing elements and on traditional style basis,he combined traditional features with modern fashionable style,utilized abundant knitting technology to achieve a better performance.Such an approach can not only raise cheongsam practicality,but bring a fashionable dressing with remaining its traditional artistic conception as well.Undoubtedly the clothing on flat knitted machine with original Chinese characters has been produced as a result.