Various Decorative Knitted Fabrics and Comparison of Eyelet Vests & Single Jersey Vests

The fashion has entered to all fields in the world. Knitting industry is having orders for variety of new products. Various products such as tuck, ruched knitting, pin tucks, ridges, sculptured forms, partial knitting cables, lace & ladderinal insertions, weaving, pleats, embroidery & surface decoration, tassels, fringing were done over the knitted fabrics. The eyelet fabric is one among the decoration on garments. Various eyelet designs are durable lacoste, single lacoste, mock rib, polopique, single cross tuck, cross miss, Bird’s eye, popcorn design, crepe design, twill effect, weft lockknit and fleece. The production of eyelet fabrics in four track single jersey knitting machines were given. The rib eyelet fabric production is also collected. The inner garments does not require full coverage and hence eyelet fabrics can be used. The eyelet fabrics were collected from markets and it is tested for dimensional changes due to washing and drying behavior in atmospheric conditions. It is compared with single jersey knitted fabrics. It is found that eyelet fabrics exhibit greater cooling effect and dimensional changes are more. So eyelet fabrics can be used instead of single jersey fabrics, Eyelet fabrics have greater lengths compared to single jersey fabrics for same weights.