Machine Components - Sock Knitting Basics

The principles of circular knitting are the same whether the yarn supply, or creel, is at the side or top. Fed from above the knitting elements, yarns move from the creel through guides to stop-motion controls above the machine, then back down through tension controls and yarn-feeding devices to the knitting elements. High-quality products can be produced only when stop-motion and yarn-feeding functions are set properly. The intricate action of knitting - where needles form loops - occurs in the middle of the machine, between the take-up and the yarn-feeding mechanism. In circular weft knitting, needles knit one after the other in sequence, and loops are formed horizontally by needles knitting around the cylinder, forming a tube. 

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