Textiles Chapter 14 questions with
complete solutions 2025/2026
What is knitting - correct answer ✔✔A fabrication procession which needles are used to form a
series of interlocking loops from one or more yarns or from a set of yarns.
Production (knits) - correct answer ✔✔Can be produced or fashioned directly on the knitting
machine
Durability (knits) - correct answer ✔✔Weft insertion knitting machine inserts yarn for more
crosswise stability, and warp-insertion knitting machine inserts warp yarns for greater
lengthwise stability.
Skew (off-grain) -Knits - correct answer ✔✔Common with knits, a fabric is placed flat on a
surface and one curse is followed across the fabric.
Shrinkage (Knits) - correct answer ✔✔Higher potential shrinkage than woven fabrics
Run - correct answer ✔✔Occurs when the stitches in a wale collapse or pull out. Occurs in a
stepwise fashion often one stitch after another if a wale collapses due to stress on the loop after
a yarn is cut.
Compare the comfort and appearance retention of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer
✔✔Knit fabrics are mobile, elastic fabrics. Adopt easily to body movement. Good recovery from
wrinkles. Air permeable. Open spaces between layers let wind and moisture penetrate. Bulky.
Woven: stable to stress. Less air and water permeable, especially if count is high bulk+ wrinkle
recovery varies with weave.
, Compare cover of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit: porous and less opaque
Woven: provides maximum holding power and cover
Compare the Fabric stability of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit: Less stable in
use and care higher shrinkage unless heat-set
Woven: more stable in use and care
Compare the structure and characteristic of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit:
Series of interconnected loops made with one or more sets of yarns. Filling knits can be raveled
from top to bottom; warp knits can't be raveled. May snag and run. Bowed or skewed. Usually
heavier. Woven: 2 or more sets of yarn interlaced to form the fabric structure. Yarns are
essentially straight in the fabric, can be raveled from any cut edge. May snag or ravel. Bowed or
skewed, usually lighter.
What are Wales and courses? - correct answer ✔✔Wales are vertical columns of stitches in the
knit fabric. Courses are the horizontal rows.
What is gaiting? - correct answer ✔✔Arrangement of needles in the double-knitting machine.
What is cut or gauge? - correct answer ✔✔The fineness of the stitch; the number of needles in
a specific distance on the needle bar/ often expressed as needles per inch (npi)
What are the 2 types of machines used to produce filling knit? - correct answer ✔✔Flat bed
knitting machine or circular knitting machine
Knit stitch - correct answer ✔✔Produces filling-knit fabrics (greater crosswise + lengthwise
elongation) when printed, printed on the face.
Tuck stitch - correct answer ✔✔Creates a fancy knit. One with pattern in fabric. Fabric is thicker,
less likely to stretch crosswise.
complete solutions 2025/2026
What is knitting - correct answer ✔✔A fabrication procession which needles are used to form a
series of interlocking loops from one or more yarns or from a set of yarns.
Production (knits) - correct answer ✔✔Can be produced or fashioned directly on the knitting
machine
Durability (knits) - correct answer ✔✔Weft insertion knitting machine inserts yarn for more
crosswise stability, and warp-insertion knitting machine inserts warp yarns for greater
lengthwise stability.
Skew (off-grain) -Knits - correct answer ✔✔Common with knits, a fabric is placed flat on a
surface and one curse is followed across the fabric.
Shrinkage (Knits) - correct answer ✔✔Higher potential shrinkage than woven fabrics
Run - correct answer ✔✔Occurs when the stitches in a wale collapse or pull out. Occurs in a
stepwise fashion often one stitch after another if a wale collapses due to stress on the loop after
a yarn is cut.
Compare the comfort and appearance retention of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer
✔✔Knit fabrics are mobile, elastic fabrics. Adopt easily to body movement. Good recovery from
wrinkles. Air permeable. Open spaces between layers let wind and moisture penetrate. Bulky.
Woven: stable to stress. Less air and water permeable, especially if count is high bulk+ wrinkle
recovery varies with weave.
, Compare cover of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit: porous and less opaque
Woven: provides maximum holding power and cover
Compare the Fabric stability of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit: Less stable in
use and care higher shrinkage unless heat-set
Woven: more stable in use and care
Compare the structure and characteristic of knit and woven fabrics? - correct answer ✔✔Knit:
Series of interconnected loops made with one or more sets of yarns. Filling knits can be raveled
from top to bottom; warp knits can't be raveled. May snag and run. Bowed or skewed. Usually
heavier. Woven: 2 or more sets of yarn interlaced to form the fabric structure. Yarns are
essentially straight in the fabric, can be raveled from any cut edge. May snag or ravel. Bowed or
skewed, usually lighter.
What are Wales and courses? - correct answer ✔✔Wales are vertical columns of stitches in the
knit fabric. Courses are the horizontal rows.
What is gaiting? - correct answer ✔✔Arrangement of needles in the double-knitting machine.
What is cut or gauge? - correct answer ✔✔The fineness of the stitch; the number of needles in
a specific distance on the needle bar/ often expressed as needles per inch (npi)
What are the 2 types of machines used to produce filling knit? - correct answer ✔✔Flat bed
knitting machine or circular knitting machine
Knit stitch - correct answer ✔✔Produces filling-knit fabrics (greater crosswise + lengthwise
elongation) when printed, printed on the face.
Tuck stitch - correct answer ✔✔Creates a fancy knit. One with pattern in fabric. Fabric is thicker,
less likely to stretch crosswise.
