Double Knit Fabric Factories

What Double Knit Is

A double knit is knitted on a machine with two sets of needles, producing two layers of fabric that are interlocked stitch by stitch as they form. The result behaves almost nothing like a single jersey: it is thicker and firmer, it lies flat instead of curling at the edges, it resists runs and stretching out of shape, and both of its faces are presentable - which is why double knits can be cut and sewn with a confidence closer to a woven cloth while keeping a knit's give and comfort. Interlock, the smoothest and finest of the family, and ponte di roma, the firm double knit behind structured dresses and trousers, are its best-known members.

That stability is bought with weight and yarn: a double knit uses roughly twice the yarn of a single jersey of the same width and knits more slowly, so it has always sat a step up the price ladder. In return it gives garment makers a fabric that tailors - ponte trousers, knit blazers, sheath dresses and structured skirts are all double knit territory, garments that would collapse in a single knit. Fibers run the full range: cotton interlock for childrenswear and underwear, polyester and viscose pontes for womenswear, wool double knits for premium tailoring, and athletic double knits engineered with moisture-management yarns.

Buying and Using Double Knits

The specification points are construction, weight and recovery. Name the construction - interlock, ponte, double pique or a rib-based double knit - because their surfaces and stretch differ more than their family name suggests. Weight in grams per square metre follows, and then stretch and recovery figures: a double knit for trousers must recover from knee and seat stretch or the garment bags within a day of wearing. Edge behaviour is the construction's gift to production - double knits do not curl, so they cut cleanly, take topstitching well and need less seam finishing than single knits - but seams still want stretch-capable stitching where the garment itself will stretch. One more production virtue deserves note: because the fabric is balanced between two faces, double knits feed evenly under the presser foot, hold a crease better than single knits when the fiber allows it, and photograph cleanly for retail - small reasons the construction keeps its place in better womenswear and tailored knit programmes season after season.

Around this directory, the knitting background is in About Knitted Fabrics in the fabric guides, the Fabric Directory hub covers the wider knit family including circular knit and interlock, and the trade runs through the Machinery directory, Clothing Industry Factories, Yarn Factories, Fabric Retail and Fabric Wholesalers, with the Fibers Directory and Fabric Definitions alongside.

Using This Directory

The listings below are the complete set for this category as Apparel Search carries it: eight mills across Turkey, China, Thailand, the USA, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan, each linked to its own profile in the Fabric Mills by Name section. No listing has been added or removed. The list mixes circular-knit specialists with broad-line knitters, which matches how double knit is bought - often as one construction within a knitter's wider range rather than as a mill's whole identity. Industry readers also use Fashion Industry News, Clothing Industry Employment and Conversion Charts. When you enquire, name the construction and target weight first; a mill that knows you need a 300-gram ponte and not a 220-gram interlock can answer in one exchange instead of three. Thank you for using the Apparel Search Fabric Mill Directory.

Double Knit Fabric Mills Listed in This Directory