무봉제 니트웨어의 변천에 관한 연구 -제작 기법을 중심으로-

Abstract

As clothes fashion is diversified and segmented, the diverse designs and practical value of knitwear are also becoming an important part of the clothing industry. Accordingly seamless kintwears using advanced knitting technique are highly favored in the world as well as noticed as a field with a great growth potential. Therefore this study is conducted for the purpose of helping to overcome the difficulties today's knitwear industry faces in our country and to seek the greater development of seamless knitwear by studying materials of literature on seamless knitwears' design and the cases of its application from the past till now. In this study, after examining the past relics of seamless knitwears, the concept and knitting technique of seamless knitwear are presented and then the historial trends are classified and organized chronologically based on the prior studies in book forms and other various materials on the website. As a result, seamless knitwear featured socks which were made fit one's feet in three dimensions mainly using hand knitting technique in Egypt in ancient times. Until 16th-century, socks, hats, mittens using the seamless knitting technique have represented high fashion of the time. And then garment forms began to appear in modern times. Since the Industrial Revolution, the kintwear industry had further expanded by producing various patterns of socks and stockings based on the development of knitting machines and the improvement of technique. Afterwards, 3-D types of seamless knit wears have developed centering Japan and Europe in the late 20th century and furthermore, the computerized seamless knitting machine made it possible for the type of knit wears to be used as industrial materials in other fields such as medicine and aviation. This study leads to the conclusions as follows. First, there has existed the knitwear made with seamless knitting technique since ancient times and it has developed into various items with time. Second, the past remains of seamless knitwear show that they were knitted as tubular shapes or natural three dimensional types fit to human's body, which means that not only the past seamless knitting technique was the reflection of the human's natural body but also considered the practicability based on wear sensation as important. Lastly, the designs shown in the relics of the past are being found constantly in the recent knitting clothes. This means, therefore, that the past remains of seamless knitwear are the foundation of developing further the present seamless knitwears and at the same time have the meaningful value constantly from the historial point of view.