Abstract: A tufting machine (100) comprises a needle bar (10) shiftable in a needle bar longitudinal direction (L), a plurality of needles (12) being provided on the needle bar (10) following each other in the needle bar longitudinal direction (L), each needle (12) being individually selectable for carrying out a stitch and thereby generating a pile on a backing fabric, further comprising such a yarn threading that, on the needle bar (10), groups (G) of the needles (12) following each other in the needle bar longitudinal direction (L) and comprising a predetermined number of needles (12) are generated, the needles (12) of each group (G) having yarns of different properties threaded therethrough, the number of yarns of different properties associated with each group (G) being less than the number needles (12) within each group (G), such that, within each group (G), at least two needles (12) have yarns of the same property threaded therethrough.

Abstract: A method for producing a textile product (I), (II), comprising at least two synthetic pile threads (P1), (P2) having a different pile height, so that a predetermined design is formed, in which the synthetic pile yarns (P1), (P2) are manufactured by extrusion from the same raw material, according to production processes which only differ from each other by a different setting of one or several process parameters of their respective extrusion processes, so that they have a different shrinking capability, and in which the textile product (I), (II) is subjected to a heat treatment which causes the pile yarns (P1), (P2) to shrink differently. Also such a method for producing synthetic textile yarns (P1), (P2) having a different shrinking capability.

Abstract: A method for face-to-face weaving of two at least partially pile-free fabrics (I), (II) in which weft threads (101-104),(201-204) are inserted between warp threads (1a-14a,1b-14b) of warp thread systems with figure warp threads (1a-8a),(1b-8b) that are allocated to respective fabrics (I,II) and are either pattern-determining in that fabric or are incorporated therein, whereby at least one set (1a,1b), . . . (8a,8b) of two identical figure warp threads is provided per pair of neighbouring warp thread systems, while the two figure warp threads of each set belong to a different warp thread system (1a-14a), (1b-14b) and are allocated to a different fabric (I,II), so that each set of figure warp threads per pair of neighbouring warp thread systems provides a figure warp thread in both fabrics (I,II) to determine the pattern.

Abstract: A giver rapier head (1) comprises a presentation space (9) between a successive guide nose (11), for leading off warp threads (23) on one side (7), and a selection nose (8), for leading off warp threads (23) on the other side, so that a weft thread (2) can be directly presented in this presentation space (9) and can engage from there in an insertion space (15) between the selection nose (8) and the first-mentioned side (7). A giver rapier (1) has a limit guide arc (10) which is arranged at the front side of the giver rapier (1) and a selection nose of which is arranged on the top side, with its top (26) facing the guide arc (10). A rapier weaving machine (20) comprises such a giver rapier head (1). In a method for inserting a weft thread (2), the giver rapier head (1) is moved towards this weft thread (2) while the reed (19) beats up an inserted weft thread (2).