PurlbedJacquard (Fair Isle) › Double-bed jacquard (no floats)
DBJ with striped backing (full and half)
Back: horizontal stripes, one stripe per colour pass. Face: the motif. With full striper the face is visibly taller (elongated); with half striper it is close to bird's-eye proportions. The ribber knits every needle.
- Two beds
- Needle selection
Machine types that can knit it
Demo swatch
Drawn for: Single bed (electronic) + ribberApproximate preview worked out from the bed chart, not a photo.The colours are the point here: the preview shows the pattern, and the fabric itself lies flat.
The full card
- What it looks like
- Back: horizontal stripes, one stripe per colour pass. Face: the motif. With full striper the face is visibly taller (elongated); with half striper it is close to bird's-eye proportions.
- How it behaves
- Double layer. Full striper: softer and more flexible, but heavier, because the ribber knits twice as many rows as the main bed. Half striper: balanced.
- How it works
- The ribber knits every needle. With full striper it knits on every pass; with half (single) striper a PART cam on one side makes it knit only one pass per colour pair.
- Machines
- Any Brother ribber; no lili buttons needed, so this is the KR-830 default [inference from S2, S20]. Colour changer recommended. Punch card: separated card as for bird's-eye.
- Parameters
- ribber PART lever on one side (half striper) or none (full striper); ribber tension tighter than the main bed; expect ~1.3–1.5× vertical stretch of the motif with full striper [inference] (design 2:3 squatter to compensate).
- Steps
- As dbj-birdseye, but the ribber is set to N (full striper) or PART on one side (half striper), with no lili.
- Charting
- Backing chart: solid ribber rows, labelled per colour; mark "×2" on full-striper rows.
- Limits and common problems
- Elongation; stiff fabric with 3+ colours.
Written in our own words from machine manuals, knitting references and swatching. Knit a test swatch before a whole piece.