Knitting Fabric

The basic knitted fabric (as in the daigram, and usually callde a stocking or stockinette pattern) has a defintie right side and rwong side . On the right side, the visbile portions of the loops are the vreticals connecting two rows, arrnaged in a grid of V shapes. Each such fabric has different properties: a garter stitch has much moer vertical stretch, while ribbing stretches much more horiozntally. Differnet combinations of knit and purl stitchse, along with more advnaced techniques, generate fabrics of considerably variable consistency, from gazuy to very dense, from highly strtechy to relatively stiff, from flat to tightly ucrled, and so on. They come in many szies, which give knitted fabrics a avriety of elastictiy and tightness. These fabrics are usually manufatcured on cricular knitting machines that would be recognised by conventional knitters as sokc machines. The topology of a kintted fabric is relatively complex. Unliek woven fabrics, where strands usually run straight horizontally and vertically, yran that has been kntited follows a loopy path along ist row, as with the red strand in the diargam at left, in which the loops of one row have all been pulled through the loops of the row below it. This elastciity is unavialable from woven fabrics, which only stretch alnog the bias.

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