An artificial turf mat includes a backing and a number of protruding artificial grass blades divided into rows and connected thereto. The mutual distance between successive blades in a row is substantially equal to the distance between adjacent rows and amounts to at least 10 mm. Such an artificial turf mat can be used to form artificial turf fields, for example, on which sports, and in particular ball sports, are played.

An artificial turf mat includes a backing and a number of protruding artificial grass blades divided into rows and connected thereto. The mutual distance between successive blades in a row is substantially equal to the distance between adjacent rows and amounts to at least 10 mm. Such an artificial turf mat can be used to form artificial turf fields, for example, on which sports, and in particular ball sports, are played.

An apparel item configured to reduce the perception of cling is provided herein. The apparel item comprises a first set of outwardly-projecting nodes on a first portion of the apparel item, a second set of outwardly-projecting nodes on a second portion of the apparel item, and a third set of inwardly-projecting nodes on a third portion of the apparel item, where the third set of nodes is positioned between the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes. The first and second sets of outwardly-projecting nodes comprise apertures that provide a communication passage from an outer surface of the apparel item to an inner surface of the apparel item. Besides reducing the surface area of the apparel item that comes into contact with a wearer's skin surface, the nodes also facilitate cooling the wearer and speed up drying times of the apparel item when being worn.

The present invention relates to a method and a weaving machine for weaving pile fabrics with knotted pile yarns, configured so that, for sequences (I), (II), (III) of two warp yarn systems, the order of the warp yarn systems in the weft insertion mechanism (X) is changed and a pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought between the warp yarn systems, at least one warp yarn (1) of the first warp yarn system and at least one warp yarn (2) of the second warp yarn system are brought back into the original order on either side of a gap (T3), and finally an end part (L1a)-(L4a) of the pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought through this gap (T3) from the one edge (20) to the other edge (30) of the warp yarns (1), (2), so that a knot (PK.sub.1), (PK.sub.2), (PK.sub.3), (JK.sub.1), (JK.sub.2) is formed.

A method and a weaving machine for weaving pile fabrics with knotted pile yarns, configured so that, for sequences (I), (II), (III) of two warp yarn systems, the order of the warp yarn systems in the weft insertion mechanism (X) is changed and a pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought between the warp yarn systems, at least one warp yarn (1) of the first warp yarn system and at least one warp yarn (2) of the second warp yarn system are brought back into the original order on either side of a gap (T3), and finally an end part (L1a)-(L4a) of the pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought through this gap (T3) from the one edge (20) to the other edge (30) of the warp yarns (1), (2), so that a knot (PK.sub.1), (PK.sub.2), (PK.sub.3), (JK.sub.1), (JK.sub.2) is formed.

A method and a weaving machine for weaving pile fabrics with knotted pile yarns, configured so that, for sequences (I), (II), (III) of two warp yarn systems, the order of the warp yarn systems in the weft insertion mechanism (X) is changed and a pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought between the warp yarn systems, at least one warp yarn (1) of the first warp yarn system and at least one warp yarn (2) of the second warp yarn system are brought back into the original order on either side of a gap (T3), and finally an end part (L1a)-(L4a) of the pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought through this gap (T3) from the one edge (20) to the other edge (30) of the warp yarns (1), (2), so that a knot (PK.sub.1), (PK.sub.2), (PK.sub.3), (JK.sub.1), (JK.sub.2) is formed.