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17-25 October 2026

Disguised stretch

Changeable knitted textiles with altering functions and visual expressions.

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

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Disguised stretch - whole collection
Disguised stretch - whole collection
Daniela Ferro
The aim of the project was to design knitted textiles, exploring the contrasting functions such as expandability, rigidness and stretch, as well as creating aesthetic details caused by movement of the human body.
Disguised Stretch explores a possible outcome of combining opposite functionalities and visual appearances: elastic versus stiff, flat versus voluminous and compressible versus expandable. The project suggests alternative design solutions to athletic garm
Compressible and expandable
Compressible and expandable
Daniela Ferro
Elastic meets rigid
Elastic meets rigid
Daniela Ferro
Compressible
Compressible
Daniela Ferro
Compressible and expandable
Compressible and expandable

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the Swedish school of textiles
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