Knitting technology, Third Edition

Document Outline

• Cover
• Knitting Technology - A Comprehensive Handbook and Practical Guide, 3rd Edition
• Contents
• Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. An introduction to textile technology
• 2. From hand knitting to hand frame knitting
• 3. General terms and principles of knitting technology
• 4. Basic mechanical principles of knitting technology
• 5. Elements of knitted loop structure
• 6. Comparison of weft and warp knitting
• 7. The four primary base weft knitted structures
• 8. The various types of weft knitting machines
• 9. Stitches produced by varying the sequence of the needle loop intermeshing
• 10. Coloured stitch designs in weft knitting
• 11. Pattern and selection devices
• 12. Electronics in knitting
• 13. Circular fabric knitting
• 14. Speciality fabrics and machines
• 15. Loop transfer stitches
• 16. Welts, garment sequences and knitting to shape
• 17. The straight bar frame and full-fashioning
• 18. Flat knitting, basic principles and structures
• 19. Automatic power flat knittin
• 20. Circular garment-length machines
• 21. The manufacture of hosiery on small-diameter circular machines
• 22. Aspects of knitting science
• 23. Basic warp knitting principles
• 24. Classes of warp knitting machines
• 25. Plain tricot structures knitted with two full set guide bars
• 26. Surface interest, relief and open-work structures
• 27. ‘Laying-in’ and fall-plate
• 28. Multi guide bar machines and fabrics
• 29. Double needle bar warp knitting machines
• 30. Technical textiles
• Appendix
• Index