| 摘要 |
A weft knitted double-jersey fabric is knitted in a construction of repeating groups of courses in which some courses (a, b) have loops (12, 13) pulled to both fabric faces (8, 9) and some courses (c, d) have loops (18) pulled to one fabric face (9) and are transversed by yarn regions (21) which extend across at least two wales and up to seven or more wales. The yarn feed to the needle beds of the knitting machine is limited to no more than 4.0 cm/cm of bed length over which the fabric is knitted in courses in which loops are pulled to both faces of the fabric and to no more than 2.0 cm/cm of bed length, preferably no more than 1.8 cm/cm, in courses in which loops are pulled to one face of the fabric. The fabric has an extensibility of no more than 12% in wale and course directions. It is knitted with a high count yarn of 550 to 850 decitex which may be an air-textured polyester yarn. It is suitable for use as upholstery fabric particularly in the form of a vehicle seat upholstery cover which may be shaped to fit the seat in the knitting process. <IMAGE> |
