Knitting is a technology that uses knitting needles and other loop-forming machines to bend yarn into loops and connect them to each other to form fabrics. According to the different characteristics of the craft, knitting is divided into weft knitting and warp knitting.

               In weft knitting, the yarn is fed into the needle along the weft direction to form a weft knitted fabric. In warp knitting, the yarn is placed on the needle along the warp pad to form a warp knitted fabric.

             Modern knitting originated from hand knitting. The earliest hand-knitted fabric discovered so far can be traced back to more than 2,200 years ago. It is a ribbon single weft double-color jacquard fabric unearthed from the Tomb of warring States Period in Mashan, Jiangling, China in 1982. The earliest knitted goods found abroad are wool children’s socks and cotton gloves from an Egyptian tomb, which are believed to date back to the fifth century.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         In 1589, William Lee, an Englishman, invented the first hand knitting machine, ushering in the era of machine knitting.                                                                                                                                                 China’s knitting industry started late, 1896 in Shanghai appeared the first knitting factory, in recent decades, China’s knitting industry has developed by leaps and bounds, become a rising star in the textile industry, after 2006, China’s knitting clothing output has exceeded the woven clothing.                                                                                                                                                                                Knitting processing has the advantages of short process, high production efficiency, small machine noise and occupation area, less energy consumption, strong adaptability of raw materials, fast variety change, etc. in the knitting warp knitting machine in recent years, the tulle fabric and mesh fabric has come to the fore, adding a lot of color to the fashion of clothing, especially in women’s and children’s wear.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The production process of the knitting factory varies according to the different products left by the factory. Most of the knitting factory is the production of clothing products, and its process is as follows： Raw yarn into the factory – warping/direct on weaving machine – weaving – dyeing and finishing – garments.

              Some factories only produce blank cloth, neither dyeing and finishing, nor garment process.   And some of the manufacturers of the decorative cloth and cloth industries there is no garment working procedure, the weft knitting mill, spun yarn usually go through winding process first，but most of the chemical fiber filament  yarns can be directly processed by the machine. staple yarn usually goes through winding process before machine weaving.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Knitting processing can not only produce blank cloth, and then cut and sew into knitting products, but also can produce semi-formed and fully formed products, such as socks. Gloves, woolen sweaters, etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Knitted products are not only used in the field of clothing supplies, but also widely used in the field of decoration.    If warp knitting medium tulle fabrics, net mesh fabrics, use at the adornment of all sorts of parties, the application of toys, tablecloth, brooch and so on.