Clothing has assumed a major role in our daily life ever since when primitive age. Along with the provision of food, shelter and fuels, the manufacture of clothing contributes to human environmental impact worldwide. There are many methods of making clothes, knitting is one of the oldest of them. Hand-knitting can be done by just needles and yarn without complete equipment and heavy looms so it becomes the most accessible and functional craft since clothing plays an essential role in human life. In modern life, variety of knitting and weaving machine show up, which makes the knitting technology more and more automatic and efficient.
Hand-knitting
Modern knitting techniques have evolved from early hand-knitting. Knitting is believed to start in the Middle East then had an influence on Europe afterwards. Knitting industry is a young sector in the entire textile industry, with a history of many years. While the development history of China's knitting industry is only 80-90 years. Dating back to the primitive humans time, the hand-woven knitwear has showed up as the fishing nets that weaving by primitive human. The earliest hand-knitting was to use two or several needles made by wood to bend the yarns, loop them one by one, and weave them into simple and rough fabrics. Then it gradually developed into a cottage industry. Hand-knitting is the original method for human to making clothing and fabric, also the origin of modern knitting machine development.
Knitting Machine
Since Chinese Han Dynasty, the multi-heald-threadle machine has been created and used in people's daily knitting, which greatly simplifies the knitting process and doubles the production efficiency. After the improvement of the past dynasties, British invented the hand-pulled shuttle ( flying shuttle device) and the power loom, which is the prototype of the "ordinary loom". Since the 1950s, in order to further improve the productivity of looms, various shuttleless looms have appeared, mainly including projectile looms, air-jet looms, water-jet looms, rapier looms, etc. In 1990s, jacquard machine has been created by French. Then in order to weave multi-color weft fabrics, the rotary multi-shuttle has show up. Then the modern age comes, a variety of knitting machine have been created to meet humans' requests of clothing from shelter to fashion.
weaving machine
To know knitting machines,we need start to know the types of knitting machines.
1. According to type of process
We can categorize knitting machine as knitting machine and weaving machine according to the types of process. Knitting machines are divided into: warp knitting machine, weft knitting machine, circular knitting machine. Weaving is divided into: air-jet loom and water-jet loom.
2. The difference beween warp knitting and weft knitting
Warp knitted fabrics cannot be formed with one yarn, one yarn only a ligament of one coil can be formed and warp knitting is a group of yarns (warps) along the direction of fabric formation that are wound left and right to form a fabric. While the weft knitted fabrics can be formed with at least one yarn, but in order to improve production efficiency, multiple yarns are generally used for knitting. The warp knitted fabric has a stable structure and less elasticity because of the formation of loopback knots.
Whether it is hand-knitting or knitting machine, knitting technology has been affecting everyone's daily life since the beginning of the development of human civilization. Hand weaving promotes human-hand coordination activities and helps people concentrate;and the development of weaving machine has greatly accelerated the efficiency of knitting productivity, and also increased human requirements for knitted products.
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