Abstract:

Applications of Piezo jacquard and CAD technology in warp-knitting have provided traditional jacquard fabrics with the possibility of innovating the structure design. Research on innovative design and fabrication is conducted aiming at knitting jacquard vamp fabric with the double-colour pitting effect on a technical back. By utilising Piezoelectric jacquard’s performance of displacing both underlapping and overlapping, new structures are formed, such as mesh stitches, koper stitches and float structures. Based on threading with yarns in two colors, jacquard bars in split execution create a pattern with a double-colour effect. To realize a highly efficient design, the paper proposes a computer-aided jacquard design method covering technical parameters and jacquard pattern design modules. Additionally, to pursue convenience and efficiency, mathematic models are built in terms of an automatic borderline design, loop stitching inspection and structure database. The method of jacquard vamp fabric design with a double-color pitting effect has been proven practically by illustrating a vamp design example which meets the requirement of fashion and performance well.