Anne Myers Emlein is a textile and apparel designer with a keen focus on the history of dress. She has a BFA in Textiles from CCA in Oakland, CA and earned an MFA in Textiles from RISD in 2006. She served as teaching faculty fellow in the Costume and Textiles department at the RISD Museum from 2010–12 and was founding director of the Textile and Fashion Design department at Maine College of Art, which she designed and implemented from 2012–16.
Emlein’s primary area of expertise is the manual knitting machine where she develops analogue systems, complex manual manipulation techniques and pattern drafting for knitwear. She has exhibited fine arts and apparel work in regional and national shows and museums, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, American Craft Council shows and Fuller Craft Museum, and she served as knit consultant to Jenny Sabin’s MyThread Pavilion project with Nike FlyKnit.
Emlein was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, has lived and worked in several European countries and presently maintains a studio practice in Portland, ME.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
TEXT 4817-01 - MACHINE KNITTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
TEXT 4817-01
MACHINE KNITTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Anne EmleinLocation(s): College Building, Room 510Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
While learning about the technical possibilities of the manually operated knitting machine, students explore color, pattern, materials and structure. Finishing techniques, such as felting and dyeing are introduced. Through weekly assignments, students develop a sample library that serves as a resource for subsequent work. A final project involves planning and sampling for a final garment of the students own design, that is then executed at the end of the course. Consideration of the garment form, its proportion to the body, and the coherence of these elements are integrated into the course.
This course is a requirement for Sophomore Textiles Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Texti
TEXT 4817-02 - MACHINE KNITTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
TEXT 4817-02
MACHINE KNITTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Anne EmleinLocation(s): College Building, Room 446Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
While learning about the technical possibilities of the manually operated knitting machine, students explore color, pattern, materials and structure. Finishing techniques, such as felting and dyeing are introduced. Through weekly assignments, students develop a sample library that serves as a resource for subsequent work. A final project involves planning and sampling for a final garment of the students own design, that is then executed at the end of the course. Consideration of the garment form, its proportion to the body, and the coherence of these elements are integrated into the course.
This course is a requirement for Sophomore Textiles Students.
Students will learn the basic techniques of machine knitting and explore the possibilities of structural effects, color, pattern, and material quality within those techniques. They will also learn about finishing methods--such as felting, dyeing, and simple printing--that can be used on knitted fabric. Developing further the most interesting results from this experimentation, and according to their interests, students will create a knitted fabric or finished piece for an end use, be it apparel, furnishings, or art pieces.
