Glossary
Textile Knitting Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential textile knitting machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key textile knitting machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in textile knitting machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Broken end
- Snapped yarn.
- Circular knitting
- Knits tubes of fabric.
- Cone
- Yarn package.
- Defect
- Flaw in product.
- Denier
- Fiber thickness measure.
- Doff
- Remove full packages or rolls.
- Drop stitch
- Missed stitch.
- Fabric
- Woven or knit textile.
- Fixer
- Machine mechanic.
- Gauge
- Needles per inch.
- Greige goods
- Unfinished fabric.
- Loom
- Weaving machine.
- Warp
- Lengthwise yarns.
- Weft
- Crosswise yarns.
- Yarn
- Spun fibers.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Textile Knitting Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Textile Knitting Machine Operator training.
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