Abstract: With the rising of people’s living standard, weft-knitted wool fabrics have attracted more attention thanks to their unique characteristics such as outstanding comfort property and elegance. The paper discusses the development and production of such fabric from three aspects. First, it introduces the production process of the fabric; then it analyzes the design method; and finally it introduces the developing trend of the fabric by discussing the choice of new materials, digital printing and functional finishing, etc.

Key words: wool fabric; weft-knitting; fabric; development