Knitting machine

Mechanical knitting machine built in 1856

A knitting machine produces knitted fabrics with the help of a system of needles and a few auxiliary elements in which all needles move together and form a row of stitches at the same time from one or more threads .

Knitted goods from one thread are produced on weft knitting machines (also called cotton machines), a distinction being made between flat knitting machines and circular knitting machines.

Chains made of several (up to more than 10,000) threads are processed on warp knitting machines . These are manufactured in three different types of construction:

Warp knitting machines : high-performance machines with limited patterning options

Raschel machines : Huge pattern options, wide range of products

Crochet galloon machines : knitted fabrics with a continuous weft thread , suitable for narrow textiles.

Individual evidence

^ Ines Wünsch: Lexicon knitting and knitting. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87150-909-4 , p. 120.
↑ Marcus Oliver Weber, Klaus-Peter Weber: Knitting and knitting - technologies - bindings - production examples. 6th, completely revised and updated edition. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86641-299-6 , p. 157.

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Fabia Denninger, Elke Giese: Textile and Model Lexicon . Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-87150-848-9 .

[1] Ines Wünsch: Lexicon knitting and knitting. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87150-909-4 , p. 120.

[2] Marcus Oliver Weber, Klaus-Peter Weber: Knitting and knitting - technologies - bindings - production examples. 6th, completely revised and updated edition. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86641-299-6 , p. 157.