Influences of tuck stitch on the performance of the circular knitted fabrics with single bed

The weft knitted fabrics are formed by series of loops, intermeshings in rows. Each loop is called as a stitch. The circular knitted fabrics are characterized by a flexible, soft handle and drapes structure and mostly used for underwear, summer and winter sportswear, outer-wear ( t-shirt, lacostes, sweat shirts etc. )There are 4 main weft knitted fabrics as plain knit (single jersey) , ribana, interlock and purl. Different fabric types as lacoste, fleece, cardigan etc. are obtained as using standard loop and different loops together in main weft knitted fabrics. The tuck stitch is one of different loops. Different fabric types differentiate the structure of fabrics and these different structural properties of fabrics will cause the fabrics to behave differently from each other. In this point of view fabric pattern must be evaluated not only as an appearance property but also a very important structure parameter indeed.In this thesis work the influence of tuck stitch on fabric properties such as fabric weight, fabric thickness, bursting strength, abrasion resistance, pilling resistance, dimensional stability, spirality properties for knitted fabrics were investigated. According to the test results and the statistical analysis it is observed that the tuck stitch has an important effect on these mentioned properties.Key words: tuck stitch, single jersey, dimensional stability, bursting strength, abrasion resistance, pilling resistance, fabric thickness, spirality,