Some Important Fabric faults, causes & remedies:

>>>Faults Name: Fabric Holes
## Causes:
a. Holes are the results of yarn breakage or yarn cracks.
b. During loop formation the yarn breaks in the region of the needle hook.
c. If the yarn count is not correct in regarding structure, gauge, course and density.
d. Badly knot or splicing.
e. Yarn feeder badly set.

## Remedies:
a Yarn strength must be sufficient to withstand the stretch as well as uniform.
b. Use proper yarn count.
c. Correct set of yarn feeder.
e. Knot should be given properly.

>>> Faults Name: Oil Stain
## Causes:
a. When oil fall on to the fabric by various reasons.

## Remedies:
a. Ensure that oil does not pass on the fabrics.
b. To maintenance very well.
c. As well as proper oiling.

>>> Faults Name: Rust Stain
## Causes:
a. If any rust on the machine parts

## Remedies:
a. If any rust on the machine parts then clean it.
b. Proper maintenance as well as proper oiling.

>>> Faults name: grease stain
## Causes:
a. Improper greasing
b. Excess greasing

## Remedies:
a. Proper greasing as well as proper maintenance.

>>> Faults name: drop stitch
## Causes:
a. Defective needle.
b. If yarn is not properly fed during loop formation that is not properly laid on to the needle hook.
c. Bad take up.
d. Insufficient yarn tension.


## Remedies:
a. Needle should be straight and well
b. Proper feeding of yarn during loop formation
c. Correct take up of the fabric and correct fabric tension
e. Yarn tension should be properly

>>> Faults name: dirt

## Causes:
a. There is too mach dirt on the knitting floor that is flying to and fro.

## Remedies:
a. By cleaning all types of dust continuously.


>>> Faults Name: Needle Line

## Causes:
a. When a needle breaks down then needle mark comes along the fabrics if a needle or needle hook is slight bends then needle marks comes on the fabric

## Remedies:
a. Needle should be straight as well as from broken latch.

>>> Faults Name: Uneven Tension

## Causes:
a. If the sinker tension is not even then due to tension variation in the fabric one place to another place holes may create.

## Remedies:
a. Even tension of the sinker.

>>> Faults Name: Oil Line

## Causes:
a. Due to minimization of the creedle friction we have to use oil. Oil fall on fabrics & creates a line along the fabric length.

## Remedies:
a. Ensure that oil does not use excess for the maintenance.
b. After oiling ensure that oil does not falls on the fabric.

>>> Faults name: Thick & Thin place

## Causes:
a. This fault is responsible for yarn thick & thin place. Its appearance is like that one place of the fabric is thin & thick.

## Remedies:
a. Ensure that yarn is fine as well as no thick & thin place.

>>> Faults Name: Slub

## Causes:
a. Yarn may contain slub portion if we use this yarn then slub will come on fabric & keeps in fabric even after finishing.
b. This is mainly yarn fault.

## Remedies:
a. Ensure that yarn is fine as well as no slub portion in it. if we use this fabric in white color then slub prominence will be less.


>>> Faults name: sinker mark
## Causes:
a. When Sinker Carried due to abrasion then sometimes cannot hold a new loop as a result sinker mark comes.
b. If sinker head bend then sinker mark comes.

## Remedies:
a. Sinker Should Be Changed

>>> Faults name: fly

## Causes:
a. In knitting section too mach lint is flying to and fro that are created from yarn due to low twist as well as yarn friction. This lint may adhere or attaches to the fabric surface tightly during knit fabric production.

## Remedies:
a. Blowing air for cleaning and different parts after a certain period of time.
b. By cleaning the floor continuously
c. By using ducting system for cleaning too mach lint in the floor.
d. Over all ensure that lint does not attach to the fabric.

>>> Faults name: pin hole

## Causes:
a. Due to break down or bend of the latch, pin hole may come in the fabric.

## Remedies:
a. Change the needle


b. Faults name: yarn contamination

## Causes:
a. If yarn contamination foreign fiber then it remains in the fabric even after finishing
b. If lot, count mixing occurs

## Remedies:
a. By avoiding lot, count mixing.
b. To less faults in the spinning.

>>> Faults name: Barrie

## Causes:
a. These faults comes from yarn faults
b. During spinning different similar classes of fiber is mixed specially in carded yarn & these fibers have similar characteristics
c. In draw frame different similar classes sliver is mixed and make one sliver.
## Remedies:
a. We can use this fabric in white color.