Studio Yani

Textile Designer & Knitting Specialist

About me

Yani is a knitting enthusiast and textile designer who draws inspiration from textures and playful colors, which she incorporates into her textile products. She has worked as a Circular Knit Engineer for the past three years, showcasing her skills in design, art, and technical knitting. Yani has a strong sense of design, art, and technical knitting. With demonstrated experience in design development and industrial settings.

Yani has received training as a Knitting Specialist on various industrial knitting machines, particularly circular knitting machines such as Santoni and Mayer Cie. She spent three years at BYBORRE in Amsterdam before joining TextielLab in Tilburg as a Product Developer in the Knitting Department, where she is expanding her expertise to include flatbed knitting machines like STOLL.


Skills

Industrial circular knitting machines
    • Operation, maintance and problem-solving on circular knitting machines
    • Sampling and small production on circular knitting machines
    • Programming pattern designs, structures and color research
    • Machine types:
      • Mayer & Cie.
      • Santoni circular knitting
    • Raw materials including wool, nylon, cotton, polyester and elastane
    • Troubleshooting with machine suppliers
Textile Design
    • Conceptual research
    • Textile experiment
    • Pattern design
Language
    • Chinese - Native
    • English - Professional working proficiency
    • Dutch - Professional working proficiency
Software
    • Excel
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe InDesign
    • Machine programming software:
      • Mayer & Cie.: MDS1
      • Santoni circular knitting: Photon
      • Santoni circular knitting: Qusar

Exhibition

DNA IKEA | De Cacao Fabriek Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Group Exhibition, 2020

Found Footage | Heden Gallery The Hague, The Netherlands

Trio Exhibition, 2019

The Domestic Landscape | Firma van Drie Gouda, The Netherlands

Solo Exhibition, 2018


Related work

BYBORRE Announces New Sustainable Structure With its 2022 “EDITION11™” Collection
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BYBORRE Crafts Hi-Spec Cycling Capsule for Rapha
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BYBORRE x adidas Launch True Color to Tackle Environmental Concerns
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Cycling Shirt from Elitacwearables and BYBORRE
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The Domestic Landscape

The Domestic Landscape
Textile design and material experiment
Nominated for Heden Award 2018

The project, titled The Domestic Landscape, is a reflection of how we use our everyday objects. By deconstructing, reconstructing, and adding textile-designed values, I want to highlight the potential for our used objects. I see these everyday objects as material that is shared and engaged in our life routine. All these objects are presented as possibilities of how we can reuse our existing resources. In order to increase not only the lifespan but also our emotional connection to the object.

More photos from TextielLab - Sample Studio


Sample Serie 01

Sample Serie 01

A collection of printed samples.


Burning Chair

Burning Chair

To burn your isolation away. To reconstruct your impression of a chair. Burning chair is an idea of taking a fragment of the burning process and make it vivid into textile. Some people describle it like a throne, some people think it is even too fragile to sit in.


Acrylic Dress

Acrylic Dress

Inspired by my artistic mother. I develop this unconventional material by directly using Acrylic paint as fabric to sculpt on the model.


Painting Series 01

Painting series

A collection of multi-medium paintings