Single Lacoste or Single Pique Cam and Needle Design

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Here I will show how to do, cam and needle arrangement to make single Lacoste, or single pique knitted fabrics.

If we look closely in a single lacoste fabric, we can see the design below repeat pattern.

1. The first coarse is all knit loops.
2. The second coarse is knit - tuck -knit - tuck loop pattern.
3. The third coarse is all knit loops.
4. The forth coarse is tuck - knit - tuck - knit loop pattern.

So the loop notation is something like this.  

From here we see the repeat is 4 course and 2 whales. So we will need four feeders and two track cam arrangement.

• Feeder 1 will be 2 knit cam.
• Feeder 2 will be knit cam and then tuck cam.
• Feeder 3 will be 2 knit cam.
• Feeder 4 will be tuck cam and knit cam.

One 1-butt needle and one 2-butt needle will be required for the design. 1-butt needle will move through the first cam track. 2-butt needle will move through the second cam track.

 

The knitting machine cylinder will have 50% 1-butt needle and 50% 2-bud needle.