The technique of knitting is widely used in textile design, but primarily in fashion and apparel. This work investigates the possibilities of knitted textiles in an interior context, and the room divider is selected as a product to develop. A room divider is a piece of furniture that often is seen from two sides, and hence could display two design sides.

The aim of this project is to design knitted textiles that by construction has two design faces for an interior context. By a practice based design method, samples has been knitted on both industrial and domestic knitting machines. Through analysing the outcome in relation to aim and references, and then conducting further experiments a result was achieved.

The result consists of three examples of room dividing textiles knitted from combinations of single jersey and rib. The concept of two-sidedness has been examined from three aspects; contrasting sides, equal sides and mixing of sides. This work exemplifies how the flat knitting technique could be incorporated in interior design, and how the possibilities of making form and material at once can be utilized.