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Shima Seiki sets up design centre in Los Angeles

Shima Seiki's US design center in Los Angeles, houses several of the company’s computerised machines, including the SWG091N2, which can produce accessories such as hats, scarves, gloves and socks, including toe socks.

Visitors to the design center can also get a demonstration of Shima Seiki’s Apex 3 total fashion system concept, which offers yarn and knit simulation, 3-D virtual models, and patternmaking functions. Designers can choose from a preloaded library of yarns, scan a new yarn into the Apex 3 system or virtually create their own. They can adjust the yarn gauge and view the yarn simulated in a fabric swatch or garment. Users can also start with a reference image and re-create the stitch structures.

There is a trim library as well as an embroidery function, a jacquard function and the kaleidoscope tool, which picks up the colors from a mood board and translates them into different patterns. Virtual swatches and garments can be saved as a JPEG or Illustrator file. The Apex 3 system will also generate a knit code to send to the manufacturer.

Shima Seiki has been making flat knitting equipment for more than 50 years in Japan. About eight years ago, the company began producing apparel.

www.shimaseiki.com/

 
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