If you are seriously engaged in sewing and knitting, early or simply you will have a desire to purchase a knitting machine in order to automate, simplify the process and significantly increase productivity. Initially, these complex aggregates were used primarily on an industrial scale, but with the development of technical means, machines appeared, the operation and maintenance of which is possible at home.
How to choose a knitting machine?
Choosing the machine for knitting, first of all, you need to decide on the tasks that you put before it, and answer yourself to a number of simple questions:
- what kind of things do you plan to knit? Seamless socks gloves, products with complex patterns and simple canvasses knitted viscous?
- What thread thickness are you going to use? By this parameter knitting machines are divided into classes, the higher the class, the thinner the thread. Absolutely universal models do not exist, but the most optimal is the 5th class, which allows a little variation in thickness;
- what amount do you have? The cost of a knitting machine depends on the type of management, class, the country of origin.
Proceeding from this, it is possible to classify all knitting machines by two signs:
1. Number of fountains:
- single-ply machines - perform all the basic types of knitting, but at the same time knit one-side fabric;
- duplex machines allow you to use all sorts of patterns, combinations, and also carry out knitting in a circle, for example, seamless socks or mittens.
2. By type of control:
- mechanical knitting machines;
- knitting machines with computer control.
Advantages of knitting machines with computer control
Computer knitting machines for home have a number of undeniable advantages:
- easy to operate and manage, accompanied by detailed instructions with illustrations;
- allow you to tie complex products with minimal need for manual modification;
- knitting two-pant computer computer allows you to knit products according to a given contour, which makes the process more
economical; - knitting on a computer knitting machine opens up infinite possibilities for creativity due to wide technical possibilities.
The peculiarity of using a fully automated knitting unit is that it requires a permanent place - it can not be constantly collected and disassembled, like its mechanical counterparts.
Among all the indisputable advantages, computer-controlled knitting machines have one significant drawback - high cost.