Loop transfer in weft knitting (V-bed)

The transfer of a full or part of a needle loop or sinker loop on to an adjacent needle, either in the same bed or in an opposing bed is called stitch or loop transfer. The stitch formed by this loop transfer is called loop transfer stitches.

Objects of loop transfer:

1. To achieve shaping, produce a design or change the loop structure.
2. To generate holes in the fabric to form lace-like effects.
3. To produce structural effects by inclining wales of both plain and rib fabrics.
4. To produce cables by exchanging two or more group of wales with one another.

Shape formation (fashioning):

Shaping by fully fashioning involves the movement of a small number of loops at the selvedge of the fabric. Such movement reduces or increases the total number of loops being knitted. The term used in the industry for such movements are narrowing and widening, and collectively fashioning.

The Widening:

Widening is the process of increasing the width of the knitted fabric produced, by increasing the numbers of working needles.

The Narrowing:

This is reverse of what takes place in widening i.e. Narrowing is the process of lessening the width of knitted fabric produced, by decreasing the number of working knitting needles.