Abstract: A method of producing fabrics which show a silk-like visual effect and soft hand-feel and retains such effects after being stretched and returned to its original size. This method combines a specific fabric structure and the treatment with a silicon oil in the finishing process. The particular fabric structure has nylon yarns which is close looped and elastic spandex yarns which is open looped.

Abstract: An anti-raveling knitted fabrics and method of their fabrication, which contains a bond between yarn segments at a percentage of the places where yarn segments cross over each other in forming the stitches of the fabric. The bond is formed in the presetting stage where the fabric is subject to a heating-cooling process under a set of empirically determined parameters that control the bond formation and the bonding percentage in the fabric. The bond can effectively stop raveling when there is a fracture and break of yarns in the fabric. This method can be applied to both weft-knitted and warp-knitted fabrics.