Knitted fabric is made of cotton yarn spinning, knitting, single yarn or strand with infinite fineness and length, suitable for weaving, knitting, thread making, rope making, etc.. The specification is often expressed in imperial counts, and the definition of cotton yarn imperial count (Ne) is: the length yardage of cotton yarn with a metric weight of one pound. Calculation of imperial count of cotton yarn: When the metric rate of return, the metric weight of one pound of cotton yarn, there are several 840 yards, called several British counts. For example, if it contains 32 840 yards, it is called 32 counts, and so on.
Yarn count classification.
Coarse yarn: 18 counts and below of cotton yarn, mainly used for weaving thick fabrics or pile and loop cotton fabrics.
Medium count yarn: 19-29 counts of cotton yarn. Mainly used for general requirements of knitted garments.
Fine count yarn: 30-60 counts of cotton yarn. Mainly used for high-grade knitted cotton fabrics.
Finer count yarn: 60 counts or more of cotton yarn, used for high-grade knitted fabrics.
The gram weight of knitted fabric is generally the gram weight of square meter fabric. Grammage is an important technical index of knitted fabrics. In knitted products, generally the heavier the gram weight, the thicker the texture of the fabric.