Abstract: A method of manufacturing stockings and like articles having Jacquard pattern over ribbed knitwork, made of plain and purl stitches making use of at least two different thread feeds, e.g. of different colors, and of needles arranged in two distinct support structures which rotate in timed relationship, comprising at least one knitting step wherein the needles of one first of the structures pick up the thread from each feed during one course of knitting and the needles of the other structure arranged between the needles of the first structure pick up the thread each from one feed for every course of knitting and at least one heel knitting step including reciprocation of the structures wherein a portion of the knitwork is retained by a corresponding part of the needles of the first one structure and the heel portion is knitted by all the needles of the other structure which all pick up the thread from the same feed during the reciprocation of the support structures.