A double raschel machine is a warp knitting machine with a front and a back row of needles: each row knits its own base fabric, and yarns carried between the two rows tie those faces together. That is why one machine can deliver a spacer mesh, a plush blanket or a tubular fabric, depending on … Read more
A netting machine is either a packaging machine that pulls elastic mesh over meat, a knotting machine that ties twine into fishing net, or a raschel warp knitting machine that makes knotless net directly from warp beams. For a textile buyer, the third family is the one that matters, and the spec to read first … Read more
Raschel jacquard is a raschel warp knitting setup in which one or more guide bars are jacquard bars: every guide on that bar can be pushed sideways by one needle space, independently of its neighbours, on any course. That per-guide offset, switched on and off by the pattern file, is what draws the motif into … Read more
Stitch bonding is a way of making fabric by pushing a row of needles through a fibre web or through stacked yarn layers and locking the material together with warp-knitted loops. The three variants you will meet in practice are Maliwatt (a web stitched with yarn), Malivlies (a web stitched with its own fibres, no … Read more
Raschel knit is a warp-knitted fabric: the yarns run lengthwise, loop into chains, and extra yarns laid sideways tie those chains together. Because that structure is set on the machine, the same fabric family covers open nets, lace and firm, dense cloth, and the difference comes down to guide bar count, threading and gauge. Most … Read more
A tricot warp knitting machine makes fabric from a full sheet of parallel warp ends, with a sinker bar that holds the fabric at every stage of the knitting cycle and a take-down that pulls the cloth downward at a steep angle to the needle bar. That geometry is why tricot runs fast on fine … Read more
A tricot machine is a warp knitting machine: the yarn is fed into it vertically, off beams, instead of running across the width the way it does in weft knitting. Three fields on the spec sheet decide what any particular tricot machine can actually produce — the number of guide bars, the gauge, and the … Read more
Malimo fabric is stitch-bonded cloth: a sheet of warp yarns and a sheet of weft yarns are laid one on top of the other without being interlaced, and a third yarn — the knitting thread — sews the two layers into a single fabric. The yarns are neither woven over and under each other nor … Read more
RDPJ is Karl Mayer’s model prefix for double needle bar jacquard raschel machines, and the figures that follow it (7/2, 7/3, 6/2) identify a specific build inside that family rather than a size or a year. The letters bolted on the end — EL, FB — change what the machine can do far more than … Read more
The one accessory of terry warp knitting machine that has no counterpart on a plain tricot is the pile sinker, and it does not arrive alone: the pile-forming section carries its own sinker bar, its own slider units, and a four-guide-bar layout. Everything else on the machine — needles, guide bars, beams, drop-wire stop motion, … Read more
Bowing and skew are geometry faults, not surface faults: a course that should run straight across the width instead arcs toward one selvedge, or sits at an angle so the pattern leads on one side and lags on the other. Nearly every article published on the subject was written for woven cloth or for circular … Read more
A warp knit fabric is built from a warp sheet in which every yarn feeds its own needle, so each yarn forms a column of loops running down the length of the cloth instead of a single yarn snaking across it. That one mechanical difference is why warp knits come off the machine flatter, more … Read more
