Raschel Knitting

Raschel knitting is a warp-knitting method: the yarns are looped in the vertical warp direction. This is a different technique from the weft knitting in our circular and flat parks; with Raschel we build structural, open surfaces — tulle, mesh, lace, eyelet and jacquard — that weft knitting could not give us. With elastane added, the family reaches as far as power net with true recovery.

This park runs 9 Raschel machines and knits roughly 6 tons of fabric a day. The raw material is polyester-based. In open-pore structures the fabric’s character is set by hole size, knit pattern and yarn fineness; we record those settings for each job and repeat the same structure the same way in the runs that follow. Because of our experience in warp knitting, we are cited as a reference in this area.

The Raschel line runs under the same roof as our circular and flat knitting machines. Once knitted, the fabric goes into the same dyehouse and finishing process without being moved to a separate site; the flow stays unbroken, and each roll’s record carries through to quality control and dispatch.