Special Knit Fabric

1. Composition of knitted fabrics:-
The most common fibres used for knitted fabrics are cotton & viscose with or without elastane,
these tend to be single jersey construction and are used for most t-shirt style tops.
Different types of Knit & woven Fabric:-
Fabric is one kind of yarn sheet that have a bond which may be made by chemical
or mechanical bond and for that which earns strength and show many properties.
Types of fabric
There are four types of fabric,
1. Knitted fabric.
2. Woven fabric.
3. Non-woven fabric.
4. Braid fabric.
5. Knitted fabric.
When a fabric is made by interloping of one set of yarn is called knitted fabric. At
list one or one set of yarn is needed to make a knit fabric.
Woven fabric
Woven fabric is a fabric, which is made by the interlacement of two sets of warp
and weft yarn. At list two set of yarn is needed to make a woven fabric.
Non-woven fabric
Non-woven fabric is a fabric, which is made by creating of fibre weft and also the
fabric have mechanical or chemical bonding that is called non-woven fabric.
Braid fabric
At list three group of yarn from one sets is needed to make a braid fabric.
Basic types of weftknitted fabric:-
1. Plain fabric
2. 1×1 Rib fabric.
3. 1×1 Interlock fabric
4. 1×1 Purl fabric
Knitting stitches:-

2. Over the long history of knitting across the world, hundreds of different knitting stitches have
been created.
The basic building blocks of all hand knitting are the following stitches: knit, purl, cast on, cast
off (also known as bind off), increase and decrease stitches. Use of a combination of these
methods can provide a vast number of different textures to knitted fabrics.
In order to save space in knitting patterns, the names of stitches are normally abbreviated