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Show What Stockinet Clolh Is. Strictly speaking, stockinet is not a cloth, for it is not woven fabric, but a knitted texture. "By a process of knitting, and not by weaving, the individual in-dividual threads of which a stockinet fabric is composed are. says tho Dry Goods Chronicle, interlaced into oue regular texture. The work is performed per-formed In a kind of a frame or loom, in which the yarns are arranged in parallel order, at uuiform distances apart, as iu ordinary weaving. Of course, the machine is automatic in its movements and capable of producing a great length of cloth in a very short time. The fabric thus formed is ornamented orna-mented with a flue ribbed pattern, similar in character to that seen in common knit goods. This article generally gen-erally han Hes soft, full and elastic, but lacks those valuable characteristics of strength aud lirmuess of texture or make, which obtain iu a woven cloth proper." The difference between the structure; of this fabric and that resulting from weaving warp and weft yarns together may be illustrated as follows: Take a sample of stockinet cloth and try to withdraw a thread aud what is the result? re-sult? The whole construction is unraveled. un-raveled. Next submit a loom product to a similar examination and it will bo fouud that if a longitudinal or warp thread is removed the transverse or waft thread, will remain, while, on the other hand, if the latter are withdrawn the warp threads will, although the texture may be partly destroyed, still remain, to a certain extent, undisturbed. undis-turbed. Again, tho manuer iu which a knitted fabric is constructed limits the designer to one class of weve effects these being of a stockinette character whereas tho principles of weaviug are of such a description as to admit of unlimited chauge, or variation varia-tion in design. |