I sort of understand the idea of knit and purl. But then you have to make a sleeve? May as well ask me to synthesize a complex chemical compound with a knife and fork. A recent search of Mr. Knitting has homemade, folk-y associations, and for a long time knitting pattern was a way of personalizing a sweater or blanket.
Some approaches are more subtle and universal, like fair isle or Nordic patterns, and some are very specific, like knitting bowling pins or initials into a cardigan. A fair isle sweater pattern and its reverse. Thanks a lot for posting and hoping to see more from you. In the introduction to the section he states 'Jacquard and Fair Isle are two terms in machine knitting used to describe the same stitch structure,' this, however is not really true.
Fair isle, Jacquard and intersia are all different techniques for colour pattern knitting. Hand knitters may be familiar with fair isle and intersia but maybe not jacquard, I don't think this technique is used in hand knitting but I may be wrong. Fair isle -colour pattern knitting with the floats in the back Jacquard - Colour pattern knitting that is double sided. One side is the pattern and the other is a dotty pattern. Both these technique's can be automated in production by simply programming the pattern into the knitting machine, much in the same way you would scan an image into the computer.
The knitting machine then simply select's the needle's needed and the machine knits always with two colours. Depending on how this is done this results in the unused colour being carried across or knitted across the back of the fabric.
This has limitations in the colours, only two per line, and the length of float across the back. However intarsia resolves these problems but comes with it's own. If you have ever knitted an intarsia pattern by hand then knitting it on a machine is not much different. Instead of using the machine to select the needles and control the yarn the user has to do this.
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