The knitting explorations began on the Silver Reed experimental hand-knitting machine and later programmed on the SHIMA industrial knit machine. The partial knit technique creates sections of knit with one yarn, without having the non-working yarn on the backside of the knit, which is the case e.g. the fair isle technique. The combination of monofilament (cells) and melting polyester (bones) yarns created a basic framework for the initial exploration. The polyester yarn shrinks into a stiff plastic texture when exposed to steam, resulting in the monofilament creating volume in the shrunken space. If the shrinkage is done under tension the structure stiffens without changing in size.
Layering the transparent knits resulted in voluminous forms and a way of diffusing the hue of the underlying knits. The bones could also be crossed with each other in the different layers, emphasising the direction of the structure.
