The fabric of small circular knitting machine

 

The fabric of small circular knitting machine

The fabric of small circular knitting machine is belong to weft knitted fabric. It can be used for the yarn uniformity assessment and the dyeing affinity quality control of yarn.

How to produce this fabric?

We often use two types of machines to produce fabrics. Generally, weaving machine produces the woven fabric, knitting machine manufactures the knitted fabric.

knitted fabric

This fabric was made by small circular knitting machine, as shown above.

Weaving

Weaving is the process of forming woven fabrics with yarn as warp and weft according to different fabric structures. It usually consists of three parts:

  • At first, making warp yarn into weaving shaft
  • Then, making weft yarn into twisting (or bobbin)
  • At last, weaving and finishing

Weaving is an important part of the textile industry production. Based on the type of raw materials. We can divide weaving into cotton weaving, wool weaving, silk weaving and hemp weaving. All in all, all of the products are woven fabric.

woven fabric

knitting

Knitting is the process of using knitting needles to form coils of various materials and yarns. After that, the needles connect them into knitted fabrics. Knitwear products are also suit for  industry and agriculture, medical care and national defense, etc. In this process, the yarn can be wound horizontally or longitudinally. Cross knitted fabric is weft knitting and longitudinal knitting is warp knitting. The picture below shows the winding patterns of warp and weft knitting.


Wrap and weft knitted fabric

The differences between woven fabric and knitted fabric

 Woven fabricKnitted fabric
Organization structureThe fabric consisting of two or more groups of perpendicular yarns interwoven at 90 degree angles.The yarn is sequentially bent into coils, and the coils are wrapped in each other to form the fabric.
Basic unit of fabric organizationEach intersection point between warp and weft is  tissue point. This tissue point is the smallest basic unit of woven fabric.The coil is the smallest basic unit of a knitted fabric. And the coil consists of a spatial curve of coiled and extended threads
Characteristics of fabric structureThere is little relation between warp and weft extension and contraction. So the fabric is generally compact and stiff.Knitted fabric can stretch in all directions, it’s very elastic. Because knitted fabric is formed by the hole coil. It has great permeability and soft feel.

This is reprinted from FYI Tester. You can click this link to know the characteristics of the fabric and who needs the fabric of small circular knitting machine.

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