An article of footwear provides improved stability and support by incorporating a strap to overlay over an instep area of an upper component that is comprised of a knitted material. The strap includes engagement members on an underside of the strap that engage ribbing structures that are part of the knitted material on an outer surface of the instep area. By engaging with the ribbing structures, the strap provides improved stability and support.

A knit shoe, shoe upper for a shoe, and a flat-knitted element for a shoe upper, in particular a sports shoe, is provided having a first portion and a second portion that are jointly manufactured as a knitted fabric. A knit shoe may include a three-dimensional upper comprising a one-piece flat-knitted element having a contour defining a collar of the upper and a base area knitted in one piece with the collar. Knit finished edges of the flat-knitted element may be joined such that a three-dimensional upper is formed having a seam on a medial or lateral side of the upper. The base area may include edges that may be coupled to provide a three-dimensional shape to the flat-knitted element. In some embodiments, the flat-knitted element forms an upper that is combined with a sole to form a knitted shoe.

Disclosed herein a stitch-bonded fabric comprising at least one fibrous web layer having a plurality of the fibers with a first length of more than about 25 mm, oriented substantially in a cross-direction (XD) of the stitch-bonded fabric wherein a density of the at least one fibrous web layer is less than about 0.12 g/cm.sup.3. The at least one fibrous web layer is stitch-bonded with yarns following a pattern of linear stitches along a machine direction (MD) spaced from about 1.4 mm to about 4.0 mm along XD, and repeating with a spacing front about 0.8 mm to about 2.5 mm in MD, wherein the plurality of fibers having said first length are captured by multiple stitches. A density of fibers and yarn enclosed within the stitches is above about 0.10 g/cm.sup.3 and below about 5.0 g/cm.sup.3 and the linear stiches are depressed below exposed the wales between the linear stitches along MD. The stitch-bonded yarns can be heat set to stabilize the stitch-bonded fabric.

A textile device for detecting liquids comprising a matrix fabric obtained by knitting, a first non-insulated conductive wire and a second non-insulated conductive wire knitted with the matrix fabric, a source of electric energy connected to the non-insulated conductive wires in order to create a first electric circuit and to have a potential difference between the non-insulated conductive wires, an electrical resistance measuring device configured to measure the electric resistance R in the first electric circuit. The textile device is configured in such a way that, when the non-insulated conductive wires electrically connect by means of a liquid, the electrical resistance measuring system measures a variation of electric resistance R in said first electric circuit. Furthermore, at least one insulated conductive wire is provided connected to a source of electric energy in order to create a second electric circuit.

A knitted part flat-knitted from at least one knitting thread, said knitted part including a ground fabric portion having a plurality of ground fabric courses, and also at least one wave portion which extends across a plurality of wales, which include a plurality of wave portion courses and in which, in each case, a loop has been knitted in a first wale in a first wave portion course and every further wave portion course, whereas, in each case, in an adjacent second wale, a loop knitted in the first wave portion course extends across a plurality of wave portion courses, wherein at least one elastic weft thread runs through at least a portion of the ground fabric courses and the wave portion courses.

Provided is a knitted fabric, which comprises an odd row and an even row adjacent to each other, wherein the odd row has odd-row courses formed by knitting from a first yarn, and the even row has even-row courses formed by knitting from a second yarn; the even-row courses are intermeshed on the odd-row courses with an interval of a predetermined number of drop stitches; the feeding tension when the odd-row courses are formed by knitting is larger than the feeding tension when the even-row courses are formed; and the first yarn comprises a hydrophobic fiber and the second yarn comprises a cellulose filament.

Aspects herein relate to a knit textile or garment that comprises at least a first and second portion. The first portion comprises a first percentage by weight of a first yarn and a second yarn. The second portion comprises a second percentage by weight of the first yarn and the second yarn. The two portions are integrally knitted from each other. The second portions provide a high level of air permeability, while the first portions provide moisture wicking and may be used as modesty portions in garments.

A seamless compression article is knitted on a flatbed knitting machine having a front needle bed and a rear needle bed opposite thereto. The compression article includes a base structure of at least one weft thread, at least one elastic warp thread inserted or knitted therein, and at least one tubular or pocket-like receptacle extending along a longitudinal direction for at least one finger or at least one toe of a wearer of the compression article and can be placed on a body extremity of the wearer extending in the longitudinal direction. The receptable includes a number of rib-like elevations, which run substantially parallel to each other and along the longitudinal direction of the corresponding receptacle. Putting on the compression article can thereby be facilitated.

The present invention provides a stacked fabric, in which a cellulose filament is used as a ground yarn, a yarn made of a hydrophobic fiber is used as a face yarn, and the face yarn and the ground yarn are knitted by a stacking yarn. During the knitting by stacking, the feeding tension of the ground yarn is 1.5 to 3 times the feeding tension of the face yarn, the feeding vertical angle of the ground yarn is from 15 to 30 degrees, and a sandwiching yarn comprising an elastic fiber is sandwiched in a knitted course.

The subject matter of this disclosure includes knit textiles, such as knitted components, that have one or more amounts of thermal resistance. In addition, this disclosure describes a knit textile panel having varied amounts of thermal properties among different zones or regions of the knit textile panel.