1. Most important application of the miss loop is in jacquard knitting designs. In case of jacquard designs it may be necessary to have more than one colour (say two color) in the same course. In this case one colour will knit on its selected needles and the rest of the needle will be missed. In the next course the second colour will knit on the previously missed needles while the previously knit needles will be missed this time. Thus a complete course will knitted in two separate knitting cycles.
2. To knit plain knit in case of flat knitting-This is done by withdrawing the raising cams of one needle bed completely when the machine knits with only one needle bed and produces a plain structure in the fabric.
3. To produce a variety of rib structures in flat knitting- Except 1 X1 rib structure all other rib structure require some of the needle to be missed. Such popular rib structure is 2:1 rib structure where every third needle of the each bed is missed.
4. Improvement of the fabric’s widthwise stability. A miss loop creates a short connection between two adjacent wales and eliminates the accordion effect of the rib. Straight segment of the float loop reduce the stretching tendency.
5. As part of structural deformation- The miss loop structure it self can be used a patterns. The effect is made pronounced by repeating the missing sequence on more than one course with same needle or more than one needle on same course. However in case of missing several courses by the same needle, the repetition sequences are limited by the properties of the loop forming yarn. The repetition of the missing sequence is relatively more tolerable on more one needle.
6. Float stitches make basic fabric thinner as there are less loops in the fabric. It also make fabric narrower as the floats pulls the structure from both sides.
7. The structure is also becomes less extensible as there is less yarn is available for extensibility.
8. The structure is lighter than other structure as less yarn is used to make it. For the same reason the structure is flimsy or less rigid than structure containing knit loops.
