Schiesser Lexicon - Yarn - Knitted Fabrics
A collective term for knitted, warped and crochet goods. In all 3 techniques, yarn is formed into fabric, bound together vertically, with the help of needles. Knitted and warped materials are manufactured differently.
In knitting, meshes are created individually one after the other, warp knitting manufactures a whole row of meshes at the same time. Looking at the material, one cannot recognize whether it was knitted or warped.
Knitted materials are created either flat or even round - as tubular fabrics. Most knitted surfaces are created in a so-called one-thread system.
It is totally different in warp-weft fabrics (see knitted binding). Here another visual appearance and function is created.
Underwear materials are nearly always created as tubular fabrics. Theoretically, a thread is built, then a spiral and then the tubular fabric through the knitting. On the basis of rentability the tube is built with not just one, but with as many threads as possible - the one-thread systems run after each other.
One requires knitting needles for building meshes (e.g. hook or tongue needles). The thread is led from needle to needle (laid in a bow) and the bowed thread row is bound together as a knitted surface with the help of these same needles.
