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2.2Foundation3 lessons1 h 39 min

Knitted Fabric Construction

You see how a knitted fabric is actually built and why it behaves nothing like a woven. You do the arithmetic that turns a stitch length into a GSM, and a GSM into a cost per garment.

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What will you be able to do?

Work outcome

You can read a woven or knitted fabric specification and predict what it will do: drape, stretch, shrinkage, seam performance, and cost per garment. You can calculate consumption from GSM and width, and judge a fabric in your hand against the spec somebody wrote for it.

Who it is for

Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.

What you will produce

You build a complete knit fabric line for one order. You close every open decision in the specification: stitch length, yarn type, finished width, shrinkage and spirality tolerances, and their test methods. You run a five-cut GSM check on a delivered roll, and you cost the garment in kilos from marker area and fabric weight.

Learning format

3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.

Lessons

  1. 01The loop, the machine, and where the weight comes from🔒32 min
  2. 02Reading a knit spec, and buying fabric by the kilo🔒34 min
  3. 03What a knit does that a woven does not🔒33 min

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