STUDY ON KNITTING WITH 3D DRAWINGS USING THE TECHNOLOGY OFFERED BY STOLL

Abstract

There are different techniques that can be successfully applied for the production of 3D knitted materials or those with 3D effects on knitting machines with electronic selection. In the present work were treated different aspects of some knits with 3D embossed drawings obtained by making incomplete rows in order to obtain an embossed knit effect. The designed knit was made on the knitting rectilinear machine, CMS 530 HP 7.2, finesse 14". This machine is a new generation machine, a multigauge knitting machine. This means that the machine is of finesse 14 but it is equipped with knitting needles that can be selected so as to obtain knits of finesse 7. The drawing chosen to be embossed on the knit was transposed on a knit jacquard, made in two colors, on a knitting machine Stoll. After importing the image into the M1plus graphic program, which is a design program of STOLL knitting machines, it was placed on a jacquard structure in two colors. In the case of these knits with embossed drawings, 3D increased attention is required to the adjustments made on the knitting machine. The most important adjustment is that of the main and auxiliary pulls of the knitwear, as well as the adjustments of the looping depths for the retained stitches, but also for those made on the opposite cast iron within the incomplete rows.

Keywords

• knitting
• 3d effects
• electronic knitting machines.