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Stitch Length Calculator

Loop length to set on the machine for a target single jersey GSM at known courses, wales and yarn count.

Stitch length

2.8mm

Yarn Tex

19.68

The formula

SL (mm) = GSM x 100 / (courses/cm x wales/cm x Tex). The exact inverse of the knit GSM relation.

Worked example

Target GSM: 105.8 g/m2, Courses per cm: 16, Wales per cm: 12, Yarn count: 30 Ne. Result: Stitch length = 2.8 mm; Yarn Tex = 19.68.

Assumptions

  • Finished relaxed state; the same loop-geometry relation as the Knit Fabric GSM calculator, inverted.

This calculator is the single-use version of what Intelactory runs across every style.

Costing sheets, line plans, dye recipes and packing lists that compute themselves from your real orders, with the numbers connected end to end.

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