Abstract: An apparatus for the production of knitted goods having integrated weft and/or warp threads, comprising a knitting machine having at least one needle bed, a guide extending along the needle bed in the vicinity of a knitting region of the knitting machine for the controlled movement of a control-actuatable thread carrier independently of a thread guide of a knitting feed system of the knitting machine, a guide carriage of the thread carrier which carriage is movable on the guide, a thread feed member provided on the thread carrier and having a feed region from which at least one thread is fed to the knitting region, and a control for the actuating of the guide carriage of the thread carrier.

Abstract: At least one pattern thread (8) is bound into the fabric ground in a process for producing a patterned knitted fabric (12). The process uses a warp knitting machine having one needle bar (1), at least one fabric ground laying bar (2,3a), at least one pattern laying bar (9) carrying guides (7) for pattern threads and a knock-over arrangement (9) over which the fabric (12) can be pulled. The pattern thread (8) is grasped, by a grasping device (16), and held between the pattern thread guide and the knock-over arrangement (9). The grasped pattern thread is then severed proximal to the knock-over arrangement, by a cutting device (13). The severed pattern thread is held out of the knitting process for a predetermined time, before being bound again into the fabric ground, no earlier than after a new stitch formation. The excess pattern thread is again severed near the knock-over arrangement (9) and the freed thread cuttings removed.