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Colour Accents on Folds
A contrast colour concentrated on the fold edges or ridges (stripes that appear only at the crests), or a two-tone inside and outside on vessels.
- Two beds
Machine types that can knit it
Demo swatch
Drawn for: Double-bed hand flat (V-bed)Approximate preview worked out from the bed chart, not a photo.
The full card
- What it looks like
- A contrast colour concentrated on the fold edges or ridges (stripes that appear only at the crests), or a two-tone inside and outside on vessels.
- How it behaves
- Unchanged. Colour just emphasises the folds. - Horizontal folds: change colour for the k single-jersey rows (transfer fold) or the Ottoman ripple rows, so the colour shows only at the crests. - Vertical folds: colour can only come from horizontal stripes, or from plating a contrast yarn, which shows only on the single-jersey fold bands because in DJ the plated yarn stays hidden inside. - Domestic machines: Jacquard is possible with 1×1 selection on the front bed (some ribber carriages and Passap). Floats run over the out-of-action fold needles without spoiling the fold. - V-bed hand-flats: only stripes, or tuck colour patterns using high- and low-butt needles. - Inverse plating (feeders swapping mid-row) is industrial only.
- Machines
- Stripes: any double-bed machine. Plating needs a plating feeder; without one, carry two yarns in one feeder (they may show as a random two-colour mottle). Jacquard and inverse plating depend on the machine, as above.
- Parameters
- Which rows or bands get the colour, and the plating colour.
- Steps
- Change yarn at the start of the fold rows and change back at the start of the DJ rows.
- Charting
- A colour key separate from the bed key: draw a hatch or outline over the red or blue fold bands to mark the contrast colour.
- Limits and common problems
- A contrast elastic carried in the same feeder shows as speckles.
- Combines with
- horizontal-transfer-fold, ottoman-fold, vertical folds.
- Pieces and assembly
- No change.
Written in our own words from machine manuals, knitting references and swatching. Knit a test swatch before a whole piece.