
3. Knitwear with two separate, joined faces
These knits can be produced in both picked and cast-off stitches.
3.1 Straight tubes and multitubes
Circular machines, whether drop- or pick-mesh, can only produce a single tube. Straightening machines are needed to produce several tubes simultaneously. The principle of producing a tube or several tubes connected by one of their bases consists in knitting two separate faces, each produced by a needle bed, and connecting them together at the sides (figure 13 ).
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Bibliography
Websites
MIT's Self Assembly Lab Active Textile Tayloring
https://vimeo.com/298407221?from=outro-embed
Saint Gobain Performance Plastics
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Techtextil is held every two years in Frankfurt (odd-numbered years):
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Flat knitting machines with pick stitches
Stoll http://www.stoll.com
Shima Seiki http://www.shimaseiki.com
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