Different Terms on Knitting

Needle Loop:

• The needle loop is the basic unit of knitted structure. 
• It consists of a head and two side limbs or legs.
• At the base of each leg is a foot, which meshes through the head of the loop formed at the previous knitting cycle, usually by that needle.
• The yarn passes from the foot of one loop into the foot and leg of the next loop formed by it.

Sinker Loop:

• The sinker loop is the piece of yarn that joins one weft knitted needle loop to the next.
• Sinker loops show on the opposite side of the fabric to the needle loops because the needle loop is drawn onto the opposite side from which the yarn was originally fed.

Wrapping:

• Wrapping is a method of producing vertically- orientated patterning with warp threads on a single jersey weft knitted base structure. 
• Specially controlled warp thread guides are used which make unidirectional warp knitted overlaps into selected needle hooks.
• If selected empty needle hooks rise to receive the warp yarn (as is the case on a few single jersey machines), pure wrapping or warp insertion is produced.  
• If, however, wrapping takes place on needles, all of which already hold a ground yarn at that knitting cycle, embroidery plating or wrap striping is produced.

Knitted Stitch:

• The knitted stitch is the basic unit of inter meshing. 
• It usually consists of three or more inter meshed needle loops. 
• The center loop has been drawn through the head of the lower previously-formed loop and is, in turn, inter meshed through its head by the loop above it.

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