The Research And Design Innovation Of Fair Isle Knitting During The 20^th Century

As an artistic and unique technical traditional figured fabric, Fair Isle knitting has a long history and a significant effect on western traditional knitting field. It is an outstanding representative of traditional knitting. In addition, it is noteworthy that Fair Isle knitting combines with fashion design closely as an ever new design point and has been widely used in different knitting products in all over the world.In the base of analyzing the design elements and characteristics of Fair Isle knitting, this paper takes historical culture as the breakthrough point and traces the origin and culture connotation of Fair Isle knitting and then discusses its progress which includes the extensive popularization of traditional Fair Isle knitting which interact with the contemporary fashion design over the 20th century. As a successful paradigm which combined traditional patterns and techniques with fashion design, analyzing the reciprocity of Fair Isle knitting and contemporary fashion design could probe into the reason why Fair Isle knitting spreads so widely and provide plentiful estimable experiences for application traditional knitting to fashion design.