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Why woven cloth frays and knit curls

Woven cuts fray because yarns can slide free, while stockinette curls because its two faces pull unequally.

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From the opening

Woven cloth frays because a cut leaves yarn ends held only by the friction of the over-and-under weave, and those ends work free. A stockinette knit curls because one face is all smooth loops and the other is all bumps, and the two faces do not want to lie at the same size. The opening covers cut weave ends slide into fringe, friction is all that holds them, and stockinette faces pull unequally.

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Cut weave ends slide into fringe
Friction is all that holds them
Stockinette faces pull unequally
Rib and garter cancel the curl
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Fraying of a cut woven edge
Curl of unbalanced stockinette

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Why woven cloth frays and knit curls

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