摘要 |
This knitted fabric, while being highly elastic and flexible and being restorable even when repeatedly stretched, has a property of changing the electrical resistance thereof between when being stretched and when not being stretched, and is further enabled to achieve air permeability, moisture permeability, and water absorptivity, etc., so as to be suitably used as a wearable material. In this knitted fabric, a direction in which linking of loops proceeds is defined as a course direction in a knit texture, the loops are formed by conductive threads (10), and elastic threads (11) are provided in an arrangement that generates a tightening force in the course direction. A contact state between loops of the conductive threads (10) adjacent in the course direction is maintained by a tightening force generated by the elastic threads (11) when the knitted fabric is not stretched, whereas the loops of the conductive threads (10) can withstand the tightening force generated by the elastic threads (11) and can be separated from each other when the knitted fabric is stretched in the course direction. |