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Level 4
Credits 4
Purpose This unit standard relates to the analysis and design of purl or links/links
patterns capable of being knitted on double-cylinder circular garment-length
and sock machines, and flat bed machines – either purl or stitch-transfer rib
machines.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and notate the
constructional details of basic purl structures and prepare machine-specific
technical specifications for their production; analyse, notate, and prepare
machine-specific technical specifications of purl fabric patterns and
constructions for their incorporation into pattern and control programmes as
feature motifs; and design purl-stitch patterns and prepare machine-specific
technical specifications for their incorporation into pattern and control
programmes as feature motifs.
Status Expiring
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place
before the expiry date set out below.
Standard setting body (SSB) Apparel and Textile Industry Training Organisation
Special notes
1 This unit standard applies to the following sectors of the knitting industry:
a half-hose;
b circular garment-length;
c flat bed.
2 This unit standard relates to circular machines using two superimposed cylinders
(double cylinder or links/links machines), and to flat bed purl machines, and V-bed
machines capable of transferring stitches from needles in one bed to needles in the
other.
3 In respect of fabric structures such as Aran patterns and cable-stitch motifs, knitted
on flat bed machines, these designs are covered in Unit 4791, Analyse and design
Aran and other patterns based on stitch transfer and needle-bed racking.
4 This unit standard covers only purl structures – pattern motifs in which the stitches in
any wale may be variously plain and purl stitches – and does not deal with the rib
structures and transition structures that form the foundation of socks and garment
panels into which the purl motifs are incorporated. These are covered in Unit 4781,
Analyse and design weft knitted structures and patterns produced by cam changes.
5 The term knitting sequence draft is used in this unit standard to describe the
separation of a pattern draft on a feeder by feeder or traverse by traverse basis for
ease of preparing mechanical pattern-selection systems.
Where patterns are prepared by means of CAD systems, this separation may be
done automatically.
Identify and notate the constructional details of basic purl structures and prepare machine-
specific technical specifications for their production.
Range 1 x 1 purl, 2 x 2 purl, 4 x 4 purl, single moss stitch, double moss stitch, simple
basketweave patterns.
Performance criteria
1.1 Basic purl structures are identified and notated in terms of their knitting
constructions.
Element 2
Performance criteria
2.1 Purl-stitch patterns are analysed in terms of knitting construction data according
to product specification.
2.3 Full machine-specific technical specifications are prepared, including all knitting,
pattern-selection, yarn, and quality elements, for incorporation into a pattern
and control programme, and meet company documentation requirements.
Element 3
Design purl-stitch patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their
incorporation into pattern and control programmes as feature motifs.
Performance criteria
3.3 Yarn counts are nominated in terms of product specification and/or machine-
gauge.
3.4 Full machine-specific technical specifications are prepared, including all knitting,
pattern-selection, yarn, and quality elements, for incorporation into a pattern
and control programme and meet company documentation requirements.
Please note
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.