What is jersey knit verses interlock knit verses ribbed knit fabric? What are their strengths and weaknesses?

Knitwear in Vietnam is workable with the most popular knitting fabrics below. They are used in word wide, domestic, and even industrial use.


Jersey knit: most popularly seen in knitwear in Vietnam. they are those single weft knits "in which all the component knitted loops are of the same sort and meshed in the same manner". They are composed solely of knits stitches. Wales show on the face side and courses show on the back of the fabric. The fabrics tends to curl at edges. Jersey-knit fabrics stretch approximately equally in both the length and width directions. One shortcoming of jersey-knit fabrics is that if one yarn breaks, it cause an unraveling of adjoining stitches, called a run.

Interlock knit: is produced by using both long and short needles that creates a fabrics with a cross 1x1 rib effect. It has a smooth surface on both sides. This is also a popular type of knitwear in Vietnam.

Rib knit is another type of knitwear in Vietnam which is a pattern in which vertical stripes of stockinette stitch alternate with vertical stripes of reserse stockinette stitch. These two types of stripes may be separated by other stripes in which knit and purl stitches alternate vertically; such plissé stripes add width and depth to ribbing but not more elasticity.