Investigating the Relationship between Knitted Fabric Porosity and Light Permeability

Table 3

Results of fabric geometry and fabric characteristics of knitted samples, % lux included (FKM samples).

Structures	Stitch cam values	Course per inch ()	Wales per inch ()	Stitch density ()	Stitch length, (mm)	Percentage lux (%)	Porosity white mask images (%)	Porosity white mask images (%)
Plain	11	1.2	1.64	1.96	9.4	9.52	48.2	48.3
	12	1.02	1.57	1.6	10.5	10.3	49.7	49
	13	0.98	1.46	1.43	10.7	12.9	50.1	49.2
	14	0.9	1.34	1.21	11.4	15.8	50.5	49.7
	15	0.88	1.31	1.15	11.8	16.8	51.9	50.3
	16	0.83	1.29	1.07	12	17.5	52.2	50.4
	17	0.72	1.15	0.82	13.9	18	54.8	51.3
	18	0.61	0.8	0.49	14.2	18.8	55.4	51.8
Rib 1 × 1	11	1.1	1.77	1.95	10.5	8.2	49.1	49.2
	12	1.02	1.65	1.68	12.8	8.8	49.5	49.7
	13	0.98	1.61	1.58	13.8	10.3	49.6	50.5
	14	0.91	1.5	1.37	15.5	14.6	49.7	50.8
	15	0.85	1.47	1.25	16	15.5	50.1	51
	16	0.81	1.41	1.4	16.8	16.2	51.1	52.4
	17	0.75	1.38	1.14	17.3	16.7	51.2	52.5
	18	0.7	1.32	0.92	17.9	17.2	53.1	53.4
Rib 2 × 1	10	1.04	1.68	1.74	11.9	8	43.2	40.1
	11	1.01	1.52	1.54	12.4	8.2	45.1	42.2
	12	0.92	1.44	1.32	13.8	9.1	45.2	44.1
	13	0.81	1.41	1.14	14.2	9.6	47.7	49.2
	14	0.91	1.38	1.26	15.2	10.7	48.9	49.1
	15	0.87	1.26	1.09	15.7	16	49.3	50.4
	16	0.83	1.2	0.99	16.3	17.1	50	51.4
	17	0.79	1.17	0.92	16.7	18	51.3	51.6
Single jersey	13	1.18	1.48	1.75	11.9	21.9	44.2	47.2
	14	1.16	1.44	1.67	13.1	22.6	45.3	48.1
	15	1.12	1.42	1.6	13.6	24.6	47	48.7
	16	1.08	1.4	1.51	14.1	25.2	51	49
	17	1.06	1.38	1.46	14.4	27	51.3	49.1
	18	0.98	1.3	1.27	16.6	34.5	53.5	49.6
	19	0.86	1.28	1.1	17.2	35.5	54.9	53.4
	20	0.62	1.2	0.74	18.6	36.5	55.2	54.1