KNITS BY CHEL (creative knitting project from Chelyabinsk): Novel kind of knit fastener...

Throughout the history of its existence, mankind has invented nine types of fasteners for clothes. The first was the lacing of leather straps, which appeared 60 thousand years ago. In fairness, we should say that lacing was not invented by people (that is, not by Cro-Magnons, our ancestors, but by Neanderthals, who genetically have nothing to do with humanity). The penultimate fastener (a zipper) was invented in 1912, the last (a velcro) - in 1948.
This fastening system is a kind of giant knit zipper. It can lie not only through the straight line (like a zipper), but also through the lines of any crookedness. It is organic on every sorts of knit clothing. It is not a foreign thing on clothes being produced of the same material as a knit warp. The fastener has a decorative fixer (the stop). Unfastening is swift (almost lightning)...

Alexandra, my beloved deceased wife, in 1994 invented the 10th method of fastening clothes, which is especially suitable for knitwear.

In the very beginning, when the fastener was only conceived and thought about, I drew dozens of sketches of dresses in which it is organically present, being both a functional element and part of the decor. None of these sketches were realized. When we got to the practical application of the clasp, we already had a lot of other, new design ideas in which we implemented the fastener...