Fully fashioned knitwear / Sweater / Heavy knitwear:

Fully fashioning is a method/ technique of shaping a knitted structure by increasing or decreasing the number of Needles or Wales.

Most common sweater machine in Bangladesh:Knitting Machine:Hand driven flat knitting machine.3 Gauges, 5 Gauges, 7 Gauges, 10 Gauges, 12

Gauges, 14 gauges.Jacquard All gauges can be made in jacquard machine.Linking Machine:Dial linking machine5 Gauges, 6 Gauges, 7 Gauges, 8 Gauges, 14

Gauges, 16 Gauges

Most common YarnBasic Type: Fancy Type:

100% AcrylicAcrylic MélangeBlended Acrylic100% WoolMixed Wool100% CottonBlended Cotton etc.

ChenilleAngora tweedNap yarn/ Slub yarnMohairTape yarnCashmere Loop yarnPopcorn etc.

Most common Stitch Basic Stitch:

Jersey stitch Rib Stitch Double StitchFancy Stitch:

Shaker or half cardigan stitch,

full cardigan Drop knit tuck knit

Milano stitch pointelle zigzag stitch cable stitch diamond

FULLY FASHIONED MAKING PROCESS FLOW CHART

Warehouse arrangement & yarn inspection

Winding section

Yarn cone distribution

section

Knitting section

Knitted panel inspection.

Linking section

Linking inspection

section

Trimming section/ Linking

continue

Light check inspection

Mending section

Washing & drying section

Pressing / Ironing section

Finishing section

Warehouse arrangement & yarn inspection As per buyer requirement we will purchase the yarn from yarn supplier. It

can be local or foreign yarn. Before purchase the yarn we must need clear idea regarding the wastage percentage of the each types yarn.

Wastage consider in case of types of gauge and material quality:In case of normal gauge/ regular gauge (3G, 5G, 7G); 4% production wastage

is considered except chenille yarn.In case of fine gauge (10G, 12G) add 1% more wastage for any fine yarn

except chenille yarn. So production wastage is 4%+1%=5%.In case of chenille yarn add 1% more wastage to the normal gauge and fine

gauge. So for normal gauge of chenille yarn wastage is 4%+1%=5% and fine gauge of chenille yarn 5%+1%=6%.

After in-house the yarn we should store yarn by their types & count. And check or inspect the yarn:

Color with swatch card, Quantity with order sheet.

Winding SectionWinding section the yarn should be formed

Hanks to Cone / hard cone to soft cone.After receive the yarn from supplier we need

to wind these yarn by coning machine for knitting production.

Winding machine

Yarn cone distribution sectionAfter winding the yarn it goes to yarn

distribution section for distribution the yarn to the knitting floor.  Here we must ensure that, the correct yarn is being distributed for correct gauge knitting machine.

The distributor must distribute the yarn by weight basis and also the knitted panel should be returned accordingly to the distributor.

Knitting section In knitting section we should knit the body,

sleeve etc of the sweater by knitting machine. The operators of knitting machine are called as knitting man. If the sweater is with placket then we will make the placket by auto placket machine.

The decision to make by computer or hand machine is depended on the complexity of the design.

Sometimes, intarsia design will be done.

Hand driven flat knitting machine Jacquard machine.

Knitted panel inspectionAfter knitting the body parts, it will be inspected by

the Q.C team in the inspection section.

Linking sectionAfter pass the Q.C check, the body parts will

be goes to the Linking section. In this section we join the front part, back part, sleeve etc with the Linking machine.

Loop to loop connection is done manually for high quality garment.

Linking process Linking machine

Linking inspection section

Trimming section/ Linking continue

After linking the body parts, it will be inspected by the Q.C team in the inspection section.

In this section the body will be trimmed.

Light check inspectionAfter linking the body parts, it will be

inspected by the tubular light check machine..

And also marked the mending hole.

Mending sectionFrom trimming section it will go to mending

section for mending on which hole has been marked in trimming section.

Washing & drying sectionIn this section we wash & dry the sweater.

Then we send it to the Iron section.

Pressing / Ironing sectionHere iron the body to fit the measurement

and shape.

Finishing sectionAfter ironing the body we inspect the iron

quality. After iron check we attached the label with

the body by sewing machine also button and zipper can be join with body if those require.

After attached the label with sweater, quality team check all over quality. It’s called final quality.

After the final check we sent the sweater to packing section for poly & carton.

Conclusion From above presentation we understand that

every step of manufacturing sweater is so important. Because if we don’t give strong follow up on every stage then bottle neck can be risen. So we should keep potential follow up on all stage.

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