Basic Knitted Structures:
The knitted loops are bound only at the feet to the heads of the previous stitches. At the place where the legs transform into feet there are two points of contact with the previous stitch. These are defined as the
binding points. Thus, a stitch has four binding points, i.e. two binding points at the head and two binding points at the feet of each stitch. Two binding points, therefore, build a binding unit. Thus, a stitch has a total of eight contact points, four binding points and two binding units.
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| Fig. 1: The Basic Structure of Stitch |
binding points. Thus, a stitch has four binding points, i.e. two binding points at the head and two binding points at the feet of each stitch. Two binding points, therefore, build a binding unit. Thus, a stitch has a total of eight contact points, four binding points and two binding units.
A knitted fabric is technically upright when its courses run horizontally and its wales run vertically with the heads of the knitted loops oriented towards the top and the first course at the bottom of the fabric.
For a stitch, depending on the position of the legs at the binding points, a technical back and a technical front side is defined. If the feet of the stitches lie above the binding points, and accordingly the legs below, then this is the technical back of the stitch Fig. 1 (top) and it called the backstitch, purl stitch, garter stitch or reverse stitch.
If on the other hand, the bottom half-arcs are below and the legs above (Fig .2 bottom), then this is the
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| Fig. 2:The technical back | of a | stitch (top) and the technical | front of a stitch (bottom) |
technical front of the stitch. This is called the face4 stitch or plain stitch, stocking stitch, jersey stitch (USA) and flat stitch (USA). Intermeshing a yarn loop towards the technical face side of a fabric produces a face stitch.
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