A welcome gadget at Feel the Yarn (Pitti Immagine Filati 83) AMI Foundation is a charity organization that supports the child and maternal area of the Prato Hospital. Only for Pitti Immagine Filati they have created a welcome gadget for teh Feel the Yarn booth’s guests. A lot of colours for a nice accessory. Come…
Yarn training experience and design award for future knitwear designers A new and richer edition for our contest at Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29): 26 spinners for 26 students coming from 14 fashion schools. Among them the new entries of DK – Designskolen Kolding (Denmark) and the Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art. (Israel). It’s…
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The ninth edition of the “Feel the Yarn” contest is scheduled for Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29) with a slightly new formula. More than 50 students from 10 International fashion schools have applied this year to participate, submitting their general portfolios, together with the concepts and sketches for the knit outfits they would lke…
Wang Yanjun won the Feel the Yarn 2016 contest. The special prize offered by Salvatore Ferragamo has been assigned to Yan Wen.
Among the companies which are supporting this year contest, there is also Trafi Creatività Tessile. Clicking on ‘Feel more’ you can read something about its history and mission.
2 students per school, for a total of 13 schools and 22 between mills and companies enrolled: these are the numbers of the 2016 contest branded Feel the Yarn, that heated up the motors few weeks ago towards the finish line on the next June 29th, Pitti Filati.
The students that will take part of the Feel the Yarn contest will have to follow a very specific concept, that the coordinator of the project, Ornella Bignami, called ‘Knitting time’.
MASTERS OF LINEN® spinners, suppliers of linen excellence to the knitting industry, support our Feel the Yarn contest.
On June 29th 4sustainability is organizing a short workshop at Pitti Filati about sustainability in the fashion supply chain.
