Cochenille Computer Knit Products

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In 1986, I purchased a personal computer with the hope of designing clothing for fun and pleasure. At the time, I was Chairman of the Apparel Design Department at Bassist College in Portand, Oregon.The search for the computer was an interesting one. IBM compatibles were CGA DOS, Mac's were black and white and then there was the Amiga, which offered 4,096 colors. The latter was chosen. No software could be found at this time for clothing or textile design for the home hobbyist, so paint and cad programs became my tools. The learning curve was steep, but I was determined to figure things out. Little did I know that this personal desire would open the door to a business that would be known world-wide.My self-training helped land a job with a computer graphics service bureau firm in San Francisco that catered to the apparel industry. This, in addition to my freelance knit design work at Esprit and Levi Strauss, (both clothing manufacturers in San Francisco) led me to find assistance in creating a link between my knitting machine and my computer. This link, called the 'Bit Knitter', combined with the manual I had written on how to design garments and knits on computer were the first products of Cochenille Design Studio/ Cochenille Computer Knit Products, Inc.,founded in March of 1988 and incorporated in 1989.

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