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Trellis fabric

A lattice of slanted tucks crossing on the surface, like a trellis. All tucking cams at ½ make low butts tuck on both beds. Racking the bed before the next rows pulls the tucks one way, then the other, so they cross.

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.
Bed chart
15101520253035→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←→←+10+10+1Both beds (double jersey)Tuck+1Rack to this position before the row (0 = home)1 square = 1 stitch × 1 row · read from the bottom · Hand flat (V-bed), 36 needles, half pitch
Needle notation, first steps
1. Rows 1–4: knit 4 rowsDouble jersey (all needles)tuck 36carriage →backfront2. Rows 5–6: knit 2 rowsDouble jersey (all needles)carriage →backfront3. Rack the back bed to 1needle right of homebackfront4. Rows 7–10: knit 4 rowsDouble jersey (all needles)tuck 36 · rack +1carriage →backfrontShowing needles L12–R12 of 36; repeat across the working area.

Carriage settings on a Dubied

Trellis
RearFront
  1. rearfront1111½½½½
    1. Knit 4 rows. Rack 1 needle right.
  2. rearfront1111
    2. Knit 2 rows. Repeat from the first setting, racking right once, left once, and so on.
For a lighter trellis knit only 2 rows on the first setting.
How to read the cross
  • The four quarters are the carriage: top rear bed, bottom front bed, left moving left, right moving right.
  • Corners, knit/miss cam: 1 knits; ½ knits on high butts only and misses low butts; 0 is out of work.
  • Diamond, tucking cam: 0 no tuck; ½ low butts tuck, high butts knit; 1 all needles tuck. An empty diamond is all 0.
  • Numbers on the line are tension dials, 0 tightest to 20 loosest. A + means looser than your usual size.
  • Set-out: long tick high butt, short tick low butt, dot out of action.
Racking handle: up moves the rear bed left, down moves it right, up to 6 notches. Rack only with the carriage clear of the needles.

Steps

  1. Set out alternate high and low butts on both beds, opposite each other.
  2. Tuck setting, 4 rows.
  3. Rack 1 right.
  4. Plain setting, 2 rows.
  5. Repeat, racking right once, left once.

The full card

What it looks like
A lattice of slanted tucks crossing on the surface, like a trellis.
How it behaves
Thick and textured. Lighter with fewer tuck rows.
How it works
All tucking cams at ½ make low butts tuck on both beds. Racking the bed before the next rows pulls the tucks one way, then the other, so they cross.
Machines
Dubied with high and low butts.
Parameters
4 rows, rack 1, 2 rows. Lighter: 2 rows on the first setting.
Steps
1) Set out alternate high and low butts on both beds, opposite each other. 2) Tuck setting, 4 rows. 3) Rack 1 right. 4) Plain setting, 2 rows. 5) Repeat, racking right once, left once.
Charting
Bed chart with tuck cells and rack positions.
Limits and common problems
A rack too early, before the row of formation, pulls stitches tight [inference].
Combines with
guilloche-nopps, racked-cardigan.
Pieces and assembly
All-over panels.

Written in our own words from machine manuals, knitting references and swatching. Knit a test swatch before a whole piece.

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