The unveiling ceremony of the Stoll Knitting Training Centre. © Stoll

The unveiling ceremony of the Stoll Knitting Training Centre, sponsored by Stoll & SIFEC·SANDA, was held at the Shanghai International Fashion Education Centre last month. Concurrently, a seminar on Knitting design and knitting trends from 2020 to 2021 was held in the SIFEC classroom.

Many guests were invited to the Stoll Knitting Training Centre. Opening speeches commenced during the introduction of the ceremony. After the unveiling, all guests visited the Stoll Knitting Training Centre and the Hand Knitting Training Room.

Stoll Knitting Training Centre is an educational platform, jointly built by Shanghai International Fashion Education Centre (SIFEC), Stoll/Chemtax and Shanghai SANDA University (SANDA). The training Centre is dedicated to train knitting design talents of art + technology.

Stoll Knitting Training Centre. © Stoll

It also explores the educational mode of combining production, learning and research. The Knitting Training Centre is not only the cooperation platform, but also the service platform for providing knitting design talents with further education and product development in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta Region, the company reports. In the future, Stoll Knitting Training Centre will provide training to teachers, designers and technicians from the knitting industry with a goal of knitting knowledge transfer.

With the industrial background of Orient International Group (Shangtex Group), SIFEC is one of the few fashion education institutions with a complete fashion industry chain background. It has a powerful team constituted of instructing experts and teachers in textiles and clothing industry and offers a brand-new development model for the perfect combination of novel fashion concepts and experience education. To develop fashion special training with its own feature, scale and culture it keeps close and long-term cooperation with Istituto Marangoni, Bunka Fashion College, EAC Parsons, ISAL and other world-famous fashion education institutions.

Stoll Knitting Training Centre. © Stoll

SANDA University is a full-time private comprehensive university providing undergraduate courses in China with the official ratification of Ministry of Education. It was listed as Shanghai Model Private University Candidate by Shanghai Education Commission, and also was one of the first members of China Association of Universities (Colleges) of Applied Sciences and one of the first members of National Association of Non-profit Private Universities and Colleges.

Stoll is an internationally operating manufacturer of flatbed knitting machines based in Reutlingen, Germany. The world-renowned enterprise was founded in 1873 and has about 1,000 employees worldwide. It exports to more than 50 countries all over the world and offers integrated services through affiliated companies, sales and marketing centres and numerous agencies.

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