A method of suturing includes: (1) wrapping a first segment of a suture through a traction loop; (2) pulling the traction loop and the first segment through an opening in a suture lock; (3) continuing to pull the traction loop such that a second segment of the suture extends through the opening, wherein the second segment has a greater denier than the first segment such that the second segment more nearly fills an entire dimension of the opening than the first segment; and (4) locking the suture in place with the second segment in the opening.

A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has a knit, tubular wall extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The knit wall has a first state with a decreased length, increased cross-sectional area, as viewed in cross-section taken generally transversely to the central longitudinal axis, and a second state with an increased length, decreased cross-sectional area, as viewed in cross-section taken generally transversely to the central longitudinal axis. The wall includes knit, heat-set yarns imparting a bias on the wall, wherein the bias causes the wall to remain substantially in the first and second states absent an externally applied force.

Interlacing equipment may be used to form fabric. A component detector may be used to feed strands such as a conductive strand to the interlacing equipment. One or more electrical components may be mounted to the conductive strand. The component detector may have a sensor configured to detect the presence of the electrical component as the conductive strand is fed to the interlacing equipment through the component detector. In response to detecting the component with the sensor, the interlacing equipment may automatically adjust interlacing operations in preparation for receiving the electrical component. For example, needles may be lowered in a knitting system, select warp strands may be raised and lowered in a weaving system, or a carrier may follow a modified path in a braiding system in response to detecting the electrical component. The fabric may have a different construction in regions where the electrical component is received.

A piece of sitting or lying furniture including a support frame; an operating device configured for a user to sit on, lie on or lean against, wherein the operating device includes a self-supporting main textile part configured to react forces imparted upon the operating device into the support frame self-acting by tensions formed in the main textile part, wherein the main textile part is configured as a flat contexture, wherein the operating device includes at least one auxiliary unit group including at least two auxiliary units which are directly and jointly connected with at least one edge of the main textile part at least in sections, so that the main textile part is directly supported at the at least two auxiliary units.

Provided is a planar heat-generating knit in which conductive yarns can be installed freely in the knit, which has excellent stretchability and rapid warming property while having fine shape followability against a complex shape of an object to be heated.

A planar heat-generating knit 10 including a knit including a plurality of conductive yarns 100 as a heat-generating part, wherein the knit is knitted by warp knit; and the conductive yarns 100 each include a core yarn 110 and a conductive sheath yarn 120 wound around said core yarn 110; the conductive sheath yarn 120 is a metal wire 121 coated with an insulating resin 122; and the respective conductive yarns 100 included in the knit are arranged so that a difference between a maximum separation distance and a minimum separation distance between the adjacent conductive yarns 100 is from 0 mm to 14 mm.

A method of suturing includes: (1) wrapping a first segment of a suture through a traction loop; (2) pulling the traction loop and the first segment through an opening in a suture lock; (3) continuing to pull the traction loop such that a second segment of the suture extends through the opening, wherein the second segment has a greater denier than the first segment such that the second segment more nearly fills an entire dimension of the opening than the first segment; and (4) locking the suture in place with the second segment in the opening.

A double knit circular knitted fabric includes a front knitted fabric having a first stitch structure of front yarns, a back knitted fabric having a second stitch structure of back yarns, and a binding structure in which the front knitted fabric and the back knitted fabric are bound together with binding yarns. The front knitted fabric has a bottomed hole that is recessed from a surface of the front knitted fabric and connected to the back knitted fabric, and the front yarns drawn into the back knitted fabric are located on a side of the bottomed hole.

A laminar velour knitted fabric is disclosed, which has an top side and a bottom side, the top side including a pile and the bottom side including a knitted fabric of at least one pile material and a base material. The at least one pile material in the knitted fabric is formed as at least one pile yarn and the base material in the knitted fabric is formed as at least one base yarn. Further, the pile includes the at least one pile material. The at least one pile material of the pile has individual fibrils with a fineness of at most 2 dtex per fibril.

Methods of producing a laminar velour knitted fabric include: providing at least one pile yarn made of a pile material consisting only of polyester and at least one base yarn made of a base material consisting only of polyester, wherein the at least one pile material includes individual filaments with a fineness of at most 2 dtex per fibril; knitting the pile yarn and the base yarn to form a raw knitted fabric of pile yarn and base yarn having a top side and a bottom side, the top side including the pile yarn; and forming a raised pile in the absence of alkaline dissolution, wherein forming the raised pile includes napping the top side of the raw knitted fabric, whereby the pile yarn at the top side of the knitted fabric is cut and a pile is formed and raising the pile to form the laminar velour knitted fabric.

A tubular double-needle bed warp knitting machine includes a warp let-off mechanism, and a loop-forming mechanism. The loop-forming mechanism includes guide needles in a circular pattern, two circular needle beds arranged internally and externally, knitting needles in a circular pattern along the internal and external needle beds, and knitting components that move in coordination with the knitting needles. Some of the guide needles form loops on the internal and external circular needle beds to connect sections of the two fabric pieces to create a three-dimensional tubular fabric. The formed three-dimensional tubular fabric gradually exits the knitting area.