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The Underarm Seam Slippage Test: Grading Knit Integrity on Vintage Sweaters and Cardigans

Pilling is cosmetic. Underarm seam slippage is structural. Here's the five-step test that tells you which one you're grading before the buyer finds out.

Pocketing and Felting: How to Grade Vintage Knits That Have Consolidated and Changed Shape

Felting isn't pilling and it doesn't brush off. Here's the fiber-consolidation standard for grading felted and pocketed vintage knits correctly.