RJPC Machine Explained: Jacquard Raschel for Curtain Fabric

RJPC is a jacquard raschel curtain machine: a single-needle-bar raschel warp knitting machine that pairs a piezo-controlled jacquard system with a fall plate. That pairing, not the bar count, is what separates it from a plain raschel machine — the jacquard selects guides electronically, and the fall plate presses the laid yarn down so the … Read more

Ceramic Eyelets for Warp Knitting: Sizing, Grade and Wear Signs

A ceramic eyelet is the small, hard yarn-contact ring that carries the thread through a warp knitting machine yarn path, and you spec it by four things: bore diameter, outside diameter, thickness, and form (plain eyelet, U-guide, pigtail, or grooved). You replace it when the yarn starts telling you to — snagging, changed tension behaviour, … Read more

Split Warping Machine: Mother Yarn Splitting vs Section Beams

A split warping machine is a warp preparation machine that does one of two different jobs: it either splits a plied mother yarn directly onto a warp beam, or it winds several narrower section beams in one pass. The English term covers both, which is why two quotations carrying the same name can describe machines … Read more

Lace Making Machine Types: How Machine Lace Is Actually Made

Lace made by machine is produced on equipment that forms a net ground and a decorative pattern in the same pass, and the machines doing that work in production mills today sit in the warp knitting family rather than in the bobbin-carriage frames the phrase still evokes. That mismatch between the historical meaning of the … Read more