Abstract
One of the recent developments in fabric manufacture is to develop three dimensional or spacer fabrics in both warp and weft knitting with necessary modification in the design of the machinery as well as in manufacturing technology. Spacer structures offer a wide spectrum of properties, such as low area densities, low bulk densities, wide range of thicknesses, high comfort or thermo-physiological properties and tailor made tensile, elastic, compression and permeability properties, without using foam, rubber, latex and other coating or laminating techniques. Warp and weft knitted spacer fabrics continue to find new and novel product applications and it is recognized that spacer fabrics will be extensively used in the future in a wide range of products. This chapter discusses the different techniques of producing spacer fabrics in knitting, the important properties and specific end uses of such fabrics.
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