I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear.

One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no idea what the hell is quality clothing. Clearly, expensive does not always mean high quality. And I'm not buying "brand" clothing either.

As I understand it, a big part of produced clothing just goes straight to waste to begin with. If everything was created on-demand, it would minimize that kind of waste.

Honestly, even "good" brands seem to make a lot of low quality items these days. I honestly find it hard to find good, lasting, clothes.

Then perhaps the poster is drawing attention to the clever marketing, rather than the machine itself?

I think this is an uncharitable view of the information on offer. The linked page similarly brands the technique with a trademarked WHOLEGARMENT label, claiming it’s a world first, so it doesn’t seem a stretch to see how these folks got to claiming it’s novel and making a bit of a todo about how it’s different. It also seems to have some business model implications that on first approximation look less than favorable, so I think that helps to justify the need for a position paper like this.

Which clanker generated this slop for you? I pasted the first 2 lines of this post into the free Gemini version and got 3 out of 4 of these theories.

Looms weave. You need a knitting machine to knit.

But this talks about the mass production of garments. Nobody at the Zara factory is having a quiet evening knitting on the sofa.

The idea of this is: knitting on demand, customizable, less waste.

You can still knit your things at home if you want to do your own stuff, or relax a bit...

This is knitting as a method of mass-production. It's not cannibalizing hobby knitters making hats and gloves for their loved ones at Christmas. The comparison to AI music doesn't work because that is trying to occupy the same space as musical artists.

Depends whether you see it as a production method or an art/recreational activity. There can be both, and don't worry, hand-made products will always have a special value. Even if everybody can order custom made knitted sweater from a machine.

Most garments have been knitted on knitting machines since the 1850s

No, it doesn't miss the point. Different people have different interests. Knitting just hits more overlapping Venn diagrams than just one.

The goal is the path... a concept often foreign to western, to contemporary, to techies.

not sure to understand your point, knitting is not a tech field to you, or the content itself of the article is not tech oriented enough ?