Brief idea about Knitting Technology

1. Knitting Technology
(TE-3103)
Lecture -01
Engr. Md. Lutfur Rahman
Lecturer, STEC
Topic Name: Introduction of Knitting
Topic Content: Brief Understanding & Historical Background of
Knitting Technology

4. What is Knitting?

5. What is Knitting?
Knitting is the method of creating fabric by
transforming continuous strands of yarn into a
series of interlocking loops, each row of such
loops hanging from the one immediately
preceding it. The basic element of a knit fabric
structure is the loop intermeshed with the
loops adjacent to it on both sides and above
and below it.

6. Why Knitting is important?

7. Future Projection of Bangladesh Knitwear Industry
Fact FY 2014-2015 Vision – 2021 Vision – 2050
Knitwear Export $13.25 Billion
(Targeted)
$21.08 Billion $32.62 Billion
Growth of Knit (%) 15.6 20.9 32.1
Share in Apparel
Export (%)
49.75 52.3 69.4
Share in National
Export (%)
39.93 41.7 53.2
Share in GDP (%) 6.9 7.2 12.12
Employment
Generation
1.6 Million 2.8 Million 4.9 Million

8. Engr. Md. Lutfur Rahman
History of Knitting
 1589: William Lee, the inventor of the mechanical stitch formation
technique.
 1758: Jedediah Strutt, the inventor of the double knit (rechts-
rechts) technique.
 1798: Monsieur Decroix arranges the needles radially into a
Cylinder, which rotates and thus moves the needles one after the
other through the knitting stages. The circular knitting frame is
born.
 1805: Joseph Marie Jacquard presented his control apparatus for
shed building on weaving looms
 1847: Matthew Townsend obtains a patent for his invention of the
latch needle.

9. Engr. Md. Lutfur Rahman
History of Knitting
 1852: Theodor Groz. Opened his workshop in Ebingen in the
Swabian Alb and Ernst Beckert started making needles in Chemnitz.
 1878: D. Griswold gets a patent for a circular knitting machine,
which can produce plain or ribbed fabric tubes.
 1910: The film star Robert Walter Scott in Philadelphia was granted
a patent for "interlock fabrics".
 1963: The era the electronics begins at the International Textile
Machinery Exhibition ITMA.
 1987: The firm Mayer & Cie begins with the serial production of the
RELANIT, a plain (rechts-links) circular knitting machine having a
relative movement between needles and sinkers. It will be
producing more than 1000 machines till the ITMA 1991.

10. Engr. Md. Lutfur Rahman

11. Related Questions for this Lecture:
1) What is Knitting?
2) Write types of fabric with features.
3) Differentiate between woven and Knitted Fabric.
4) Why Knitting Is Important for economy of Bangladesh?
5) Briefly Describe History of Knitting
6) Learn about BKMEA?

12. Thank You