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Knitting short socks with siro and modal yarns

Plain socks can be men’s, women’s or children’s. They are essentially made from three yarns. The base yarn is most often cotton or woollen, single or ply, or one of many other yarns with similar shape and fibre composition. Various plain socks which have special uses are developed using the same construction principles as classic plain socks. Therefore, socks for skiers, football, handball, basketball and tennis players are made according to predefined principles with some yarns that have special properties being knitted into certain sock parts. There is a continuous search for the most suitable yarns and yarn properties for all of the above mentioned and similar shapes of plain socks. The focus of this research is on the production of classic winter plain socks with viscose SIRO yarns and modal fibre yarns. Sock samples were made using hosiery machine with a cylinder-bed diameter of 95 mm (3 ¾ inches) which knitted with 108 needles, i.e. it had the E9 gauge. On this type of machine, up to five yarns with total yarn count of 50 to 100 tex are optimally knitted into a row. The described yarns were used to make three samples per each type of plain sock with different base and plated yarns. The base yarns had the yarn count of 20 and 25 tex, the plated PA 156 and 220 dtex and the elastane 54 tex. The masses of produced socks were 19.3 to 23.0 g/pc.

classic winter plain socks, modal, viscose, SIRO, polyamide, cotton

This work was funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, Project IP-2016-06-5278.