Karl Mayer, a leading provider of machines for warp knitting, technical textiles, and warp preparation for weaving, has developed new multibar lace fabrics with block yarn guides and bourdon cords, produced on Karl Mayer’s multibar raschel machines. The trend for using lace to create stylish garments is catching up in the textile industry. The lace, with its typical relief-like patterns, can be produced in a wide variety of designs – ranging from classic styles to modern and extravagant looks, which bring an impressive quality to the garments. Bourdon cords are classic materials used for designing apparel lace, and produce striking patterns. Thick yarns especially enable multifaceted and striking contours to be produced, but they are not that easy to handle during the production process. The guide bars in the front shog lines on the tried and-tested ML 46 were fitted with special guides for processing chunky bourdon cords. Non-stretch types can now be used in counts of up to 2,500 dtex, and stretch types of up to 3,300 dtex can even be processed. The maximum possible yarn counts for multibar raschel machines equipped with standard knitting elements are just over half of these values respectively.
