Hosiery manufacture

It should be stated that there is a great need for a fuller knowledge of the basic principles of colour harmony and contrast in the knitting industry if the artistic qualities o...

The part played by colour in knitted goods depends largely on the use to which they have to be put and the variety of garment in which they are employed. For undergarments which...

A large variety of yarns other than pure woollens are employed for knitted goods and there is no branch of the textile industry where such free use is made of materials of diffe...

The type of knitting instrument employed is responsible for a convenient division of the industry according as the machines are fitted with the latch or the bearded needle. The...

The latch needle is one of the indispensable instruments of the knitting industry, as was abundantly proved during the war period when shortage of needles threw large numbers of...

In former chapters it has been pointed out that the knitted stitch is apparently a simple structure, but on closer examination a number of elements are discovered which together...

Within recent years a great improvement has been effected in the matter of yarn numbering for the hosiery trade. Formerly a number of systems were in vogue which were distinctly...

By the setting of a fabric is meant the closeness in which the loops are knitted in the fabric, and this question also bears reference to the weight of the fabric and its densit...

In a former chapter the intricately delicate structure of the knitted loops was described, and the causes of some of the minor defects of stitch were outlined when the utmost im...

Knitting machines are divided into two classes according as they produce fabric in flat portions or in circular shape. In the methods of stitch formation already described the c...

Compared with the weaving branch of textiles the knitting industry has several outstanding advantages which are now being widely recognized. In weaving it is necessary to have a...

An interesting series of calculations useful to the knitting industry can be built up in connection with the methods of finding the resultant single counts of two or more yarns...

There has been in recent years an extraordinary development in the scope and application of the knitted fabric which may be traced to a variety of causes. The chief explanation...

The qualities necessary for knitted goods have already been outlined as applied to the fabric, but if ideal results are to be secured, the yarns require to possess certain speci...