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KNITTING TECHNOLOGY
A comprehensive handbook and practical guide
Third edition

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1.1 Interweaving ............................................... 2
1.2 Intertwining and twisting ..................................... 2
1.3 Interlooping ................................................ 3
2.1 The Madonna knitting Christ’s seamless garment ................ 8
2.2 Hand pin knitting ........................................... 8
2.3 The action of frame knitting .................................. 10
2.4 Hand frame (c. 1820) ........................................ 11
2.5 Warp knitted fabric on the moon .............................. 13
3.1 Basic knitting action of a needle .............................. 20
3.2 Main parts of the bearded needle ............................. 21
3.3 Main features of the latch needle ............................. 23
3.4 Knitting action of the latch needle ............................ 25
3.5 Compound needle .......................................... 27
3.6 Open-stem slide needle ...................................... 27
4.1 Action of the loop-forming sinker ............................. 32
4.2 Action of the knock-over sinker .............................. 33
4.3 Loop forming by warp guides ................................ 33
4.4 Simple hand-turned Griswold type machine .................... 36
5.1 Intermeshing points of a needle loop .......................... 38
5.2 Overlapping and underlapping (warp knitting) .................. 39
5.3 The underlap shog .......................................... 40
5.4 The closed lap .............................................. 41
5.5 The open lap ............................................... 41
5.6 The knitted stitch ........................................... 42
5.7 An impossible intermeshing .................................. 43
5.8 Face- and reverse-meshed loops ............................... 44
6.1 Weft knitting ............................................... 48
6.2 Warp knitting .............................................. 49
6.3 Overlock seaming ........................................... 50
6.4 Cup-seaming ............................................... 50
6.5 Warp-knitted car upholstery .................................. 51
6.6 Loop extension and recovery ................................. 53
6.7 Yarn flow in knitted structure ................................. 53
6.8 Weft knitted loop transfer .................................... 53
6.9 The plating relationship of two yarns .......................... 56
6.10 Plating in weft knitting ....................................... 57
6.11 Plating in warp knitting ...................................... 57
6.12 The movement of loops to form open work ..................... 58
6.13 Bra and briefs made from elastic raschel lace fabric ............. 59
7.1 The technical face of plain weft knitted fabric .................. 61
7.2 The technical back of plain weft knitted fabric .................. 62
7.3 The three-dimensional structure of plain weft knitting ........... 62
7.4 Cross-section of knitting head of a single jersey machine ......... 64
7.5 Knitting cycle of a single jersey latch needle machine ............ 65
7.6 Sinker timing on a single jersey machine ....................... 66
7.7 Structure of 1 ¥ 1 rib ........................................ 67
7.8 Face and reverse loop wales in 1 ¥ 1 rib ........................ 68
7.9 Rib set-outs ................................................ 69
7.10 Knitting action of a circular rib machine ....................... 70
7.11 Needle cam timing for a circular rib machine ................... 71
7.12 Synchronised timing ........................................ 72
7.13 Delayed timing ............................................. 72
7.14 Interlock fabric structure .................................... 73
7.15 Knitting interlock ........................................... 75
7.16 Interlock cam system ........................................ 76
7.17 Purl knitting using sliders .................................... 77
7.18 Purl fabric structure ......................................... 77
7.19 Purl needle transfer action ................................... 79
7.20 Purl notation ............................................... 79
7.21 Basket purl with a collecting course ........................... 80
7.22 Basket purl without a collecting course ........................ 80
7.23 Purl needle transfer using spring loaded cams .................. 81
8.1 Sequential knitting .......................................... 84
8.2 Mechanically controlled flat knitting machines .................. 86
8.3 Mechanically controlled circular knitting machines .............. 88
8.4 Mechanically controlled hosiery machines ...................... 88
9.1 Float stitch produced on a latch needle machine ................ 91
9.2 Technical face of float stitch .................................. 92
9.3 Float plated fabric .......................................... 93
9.4 Tuck stitch produced on a latch needle machine ................ 94
9.5 Technical face of tuck stitch fabric ............................. 95
9.6 Commencing knitting on an empty rib needle ................... 95
9.7 Successive tucks and floats on the same rib needle .............. 96
9.8 Floating across four adjacent plain needles ..................... 97
9.9 Tucking over four adjacent plain needles ....................... 97
9.10 Selective tucking in the hook ................................. 98
9.11 Three step needle selection .................................. 98
9.12 Tucking on the latch ........................................ 99
10.1 An attractive use of horizontal striping ........................ 101
10.2 Yarn carrier positioning for intarsia ............................ 102
10.3 Examples of intarsia designs knitted on an electronic
V-bed machine ............................................. 103
10.4 Single jersey jacquard ....................................... 106
10.5 Accordion fabric ........................................... 107
10.6 Rib jacquard ............................................... 108
10.7 Three colour jacquard with birds eye backing ................... 109
10.8 Combined links-links and three colour float jacquard ............ 110
11.1 Miss, knit and tuck using different butt lengths .................. 116
11.2 Multi-cam track needle butt control ........................... 117
11.3 Mirror repeat needle selection ................................ 119
11.4 The development of design areas using selection devices ......... 121
11.5 Fixed pattern key selection ................................... 122
11.6 Geometric selection using Brinton trick wheels ................. 124
11.7 Disc selection .............................................. 126
11.8 Change of presser position from one revolution to the next ...... 127
11.9 Three-step needle selection using a pattern wheel ............... 128
11.10 The building of pattern areas over a number of machine
revolutions using pattern wheel selection ....................... 129
11.11 Piezo-electronic rib jacquard machine ......................... 131
11.12 Moratronic needle selection .................................. 132
12.1 Electronic sampling machine ................................. 135
12.2 Knitting patterns and programmes generated using
automatic routines .......................................... 137
12.3 Simulated knit package ...................................... 138
12.4 MKS knitting system for Windows ............................ 140
12.5 Linked windows options of fabric view and technical view ....... 142
12.6 The FF programme inserts the control columns and, using the
existing jacquard, generates the Sintral programme, which
contains all the necessary data for machine control .............. 143
13.1 Twill effects ................................................ 146
13.2 Single jersey hopsack structure and notation .................... 147
13.3 Double jersey non-jacquard fabrics ............................ 149
13.4 Further double jersey fabrics ................................. 150
13.5 Twill and poplin double jersey ................................ 151
13.6 Single and double blister ..................................... 152
13.7 Double pique .............................................. 153
13.8 Milano, punto di Roma and evermonte ........................ 153
13.9 Tuck lace .................................................. 154
13.10 Tunnel inlay ................................................ 155
13.11 Faneknit inlay device ........................................ 155
13.12 The modern circular single jersey fabric machine ................ 156
13.13 The Relanit contra knitting action ............................. 158
14.1 Three-thread fleecy loop structure ............................. 162
14.2 Three-thread fleecy knitting cycle ............................. 163
14.3 Fleecy interlock ............................................ 164
14.4 Horizontal ribs with an ottoman effect on two-tone towelling ..... 165
14.5 Action of the plush sinker ................................... 166
14.6 Sliver high pile machine ..................................... 168
14.7 Wrap patterning ............................................ 169
15.1 Plain loop transfer stitch ..................................... 172
15.2 À jour knupf ............................................... 173
15.3 Knitting on empty rib needle followed by rib loop transfer ....... 174
15.4 Rib loop transfer on a modern V-bed machine .................. 175
15.5 Pelerine stitch .............................................. 177
15.6 Pelerine transfer action ...................................... 178
16.1 Turned welt on latch needle machine .......................... 180
16.2 Turned welt on bearded needle machine ....................... 180
16.3 Accordion welt top .......................................... 180
16.4 Tubular welt ............................................... 182
16.5 Roll welt .................................................. 182
16.6 Racked welt ............................................... 183
16.7 Wale fashioning (narrowing) ................................. 184
16.8 Wale fashioning (widening) .................................. 185
16.9 Integrally shaped rib garment pieces .......................... 186
16.10 Modern integral garment technology .......................... 187
16.11 Full-fashioned shaping calculation ............................ 188
16.12 Garment shaping by holding loops on a V-bed flat machine ...... 190
16.13 Stitch shaping .............................................. 191
16.14 Stitch-shaped thermal underwear ............................. 192
17.1 Sixteen-head plain straight bar frame with conveyer ............. 195
17.2 Knitting head of the straight bar frame ........................ 197
17.3 Movement of knitting elements ............................... 198
17.4 Fashioning points ........................................... 201
17.5 The fashioning action ....................................... 202
17.6 Rib to plain ................................................ 205
18.1 Passage of yarn from package to yarn carrier ................... 210
18.2 Knitting action of V-bed flat machine .......................... 212
18.3 Cam system of simple hand flat ............................... 213
18.4 Yarn carrier positioning ..................................... 217
18.5 Half-cardigan loop structure ................................. 218
18.6 Full cardigan ............................................... 219
18.7 Racked rib ................................................. 220
18.8 Aran knit sweater .......................................... 222
19.1 Mechanical jacquard selection on a V-bed flat machine .......... 227
19.2 Shimatronic SEC cam system ................................. 228
19.3 Knitting elements ........................................... 229
19.4 Presser cams ............................................... 229
19.5 Action of the presser foot .................................... 233
19.6 Multi-gauge technique garment ............................... 235
19.7 (a) Split stitch using latch needles. (b) Split stitch using
compound needles .......................................... 236
19.8 The FIRST 123 three-system, short-bed computerised flat
knitting machine ........................................... 237
19.9 Tubular plain knitting on a flat machine ....................... 238
19.10 Tubular rib knitted on arranged needle sequence ............... 239
19.11 Half gauge tubular rib ....................................... 239
19.12 Comparison of the new slide needle with the latch needle ........ 240
19.13 The TFK driving system ..................................... 242
20.1 RTR circular garment length revolving cam-box rib machine ..... 245
20.2 Close-up of RTR revolving cam-box .......................... 246
20.3 Cam system elements of a circular purl machine ................ 248
20.4 Part of a purl garment knitting sequence ...................... 249
20.5 Cylinder cam system of an RTR rib loop transfer machine ....... 251
20.6 The RTR dial cam system ................................... 252
20.7 Body-size seamless garment .................................. 254
21.1 Close-up view of the knitting head of a 4-feeder
seamless hose machine ................. ..................... 257
21.2 Notation of 3 ¥ 1 micromesh ................................. 261
21.3 Double cylinder half hose machine ............................ 263
21.4 Heel produced by reciprocation ............................... 265
21.5 Lin Toe toe-closing on the machine ........................... 269
21.6 GL one-piece tights ......................................... 272
22.1 Trip-tape positive feed ....................................... 276
22.2 Warp let-off regulator ....................................... 278
22.3 Model of weft-knitted loop formation indicating the
mechanism of ‘robbing-back’ ................................. 283
23.1 Guide bar lapping movement ................................. 286
23.2 Tricot machine HKS 2-3 ..................................... 287
23.3 Guide bar swinging and shogging mechanism ................... 288
23.4 Warp knitting lapping and chain notation ...................... 292
23.5 Overlap/underlap variations .................................. 293
23.6 Open and closed lap pillar stitches ............................ 294
23.7 Atlas lapping ............................................... 295
23.8 Face and back of single guide bar warp knitted fabric ............ 296
24.1 Knitting elements in a bearded needle tricot machine ............ 299
24.2 Cross-section of a bearded needle tricot machine ................ 299
24.3 Knitting cycle of a bearded needle tricot machine ............... 300
24.4 Knitting elements in a latch needle raschel machine ............. 302
24.5 Cross-section of a latch needle raschel machine ................. 303
24.6 Knitting action of a single needle bar latch needle
raschel machine ............................................ 304
24.7 Knitting action of a compound needle tricot machine ............ 306
24.8 The crochet machine ........................................ 307
24.9 Knitting elements in a crochet machine ........................ 308
24.10 Knitting action of a crochet machine .......................... 309
24.11 A range of crochet fabrics ................................... 310
25.1 Notations of two guide bar warp knitted fabrics ................ 314
25.2 Plating position of the front guide bar underlap ................. 315
25.3 Plating appearance on the technical back of a two guide
bar fabric .................................................. 315
25.4 Plating position of the front guide bar overlap .................. 316
25.5 Plating appearance on the technical face of a two guide
bar fabric .................................................. 316
25.6 Technical back of sharkskin fabric ............................ 318
25.7 Technical back of queenscord fabric ........................... 318
25.8 Technical back of raised loop velour .......................... 320
26.1 Miss-lapping ............................................... 323
26.2 Structure of a balanced net .................................. 324
26.3 Notation of 2 ¥ 2 sandfly net ................................. 325
26.4 Pin net loop structure and lapping diagram ..................... 325
26.5 Loop structure and notation of sandfly net ..................... 326
26.6 Three wale wide cord ....................................... 326
27.1 The action of inlay in warp knitting ........................... 328
27.2 Arrangement of guide bars in a fall-plate raschel ............... 331
27.3 Fall-plate raised out of action ................................ 332
27.4 Fall-plate lowered into action ................................ 332
27.5 Simple fall-plate loop structure ............................... 332
27.6 Knitting fall-plate designs .................................... 332
27.7 Weft insertion principles ..................................... 334
27.8 Magazine weft insertion ..................................... 335
27.9 Cut presser lapping movement ............................... 336
27.10 Shell stitch ................................................. 337
27.11 Cut presser knop fabric ...................................... 338
28.1 Multi-guide bar raschel lace machine .......................... 341
28.2 Automatic overlap guide bar drive ............................ 342
28.3 Raschel lace guide bar nesting ................................ 343
28.4 Embroidery patterning ...................................... 343
28.5 The summary drive (SU) electronic patterning mechanism ....... 345
28.6 28 gauge (E 14) pillar inlay using outline threads ................ 346
28.7 36 gauge (E 18) standard gauge ............................... 346
28.8 48 gauge (E 24) fine gauge ................................... 347
28.9 Raschel lace five course tulle with inlay ........................ 348
28.10 Three bar marquisette ....................................... 349
28.11 Three bar voile ............................................. 349
28.12 Elastane fabrics ............................................. 350
28.13 Jacquard inlay deflection units ................................ 351
28.14 Mechanical jacquard apparatus ............................... 352
28.15 Jacquard segment of 16 or 32 segments and jacquard element .... 353
28.16 Leaver’s lace effect .......................................... 354
28.17 Textronic MRPJ 59/1/24 raschel lace machine ................... 355
29.1 Double needle bar lapping notations .......................... 358
29.2 Loop diagram of double faced double needle bar fabric .......... 359
29.3 Knitting action of bearded needle simplex machine .............. 360
29.4 Knitting action of a double needle bar raschel .................. 362
29.5 Lapping diagram and notation of a seamless tube knitted on
a double needle bar raschel .................................. 364
29.6 Principle of knitting tights on a double needle bar raschel ........ 366
29.7 Fruit and vegetable sacks knitted on double needle bar
raschel machines ............................................ 367
29.8 Notation for a three guide bar cut plush ....................... 368
29.9 Notation for a five guide bar cut plush ......................... 368
30.1 EQT full-body competition swimsuit .......................... 371
30.2 Directionally-structured fibres (DSF) geotextile constructions ..... 373
30.3 Principle of the LIBA multi-axial magazine weft insertion
warp knitting machine ....................................... 374
30.4 Malimo stitch bonding machine knitting head ................... 375
30.5 Raschel-knitted spacer structure used for car seat covers ......... 377
30.6 Tube connection with rectangular cross-section ................. 378
30.7 Funnel-shaped tube connection in Kevlar ...................... 378




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