Studio Yani

Textile Designer & Knitting Specialist

About me

Yani is a knitting enthusiast and a textile designer. She finds inspiration in the tactility and playful colors, further translating into textile products. Working as a Circular Knit Engineer for the last three years and demonstrated her ability in design, art, and technical knitting. Yani has a strong sense of design, art field, and technical knitting. With demonstrated experience in design development and industrial environment.

Yani later has been trained as a Knitting Specialist on several industrial knitting machines. Especially on the circular knitting machines (Santoni, Mayer Cie). The last three years she worked at BYBORRE in Amsterdam. Now working as at TextielLab in Tilburg as a trainee becoming a Product Developer. Expanding her knowledge on the flatbed knitting machines (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.

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.