Miss (weft knitting)

A knitting cycle where a needle or needles do no take a yarn and thus produce a float loop either intentionally or as the result of a knitting fault.

Miss-lap (warp knitting)

The effect produced when a guide bar is not shogged (see shog) sideways for either an overlap or an underlap.

Miss-Stitch

A knitting construction formed when the needle holds the old loop and does not receive new yarn. It connects two loops of the same course that are not in adjacent wales. Also known as float-stitch.

Missed loop (weft knitting)

A length (or lengths) of yarn not received by a needle and connecting two loops of the same course that are not in adjacent wales.

Missing End

See END OUT.

Missing pick (fabric defect)

The unintentional omission of one complete length of weft thread across the full width of a fabric. The fault may appear as a narrow crack.

Mistral

A plain-weave dress material, made with nub yarns.

Mitter Printing Machine

A rotary carpet printing machine with up to eight stainless-steel mesh screens and with cylindrical squeegees of moderately large diameter in each rotary screen. The unit has a streaming zone for dye fixation.

Mixed end

A thread that differs in material, linear density, filament, twist, lustre, colour, or shade from adjacent normal threads.
Note.. In woven or warp-knitted fabrics the defect appears as a vertical line running warpway; in weft-knitted fabrics, as a horizontal stripe running across the fabric and repeated at regular intervals.

Mixed End Or Filling

Warp or filling yarn differing from that normally used in the fabric e.g. yarn with the incorrect twist or number of plies yarn of the wrong color or yarn from the wrong lot.

Mixed weft (fabric defect)

An unintentional mixing of two or more lots of weft yarns.
Note.. This may lead to the formation of weft bars (see under bar (woven fabric)).

Mixture

A yarn made from fibres of two or more colours blended together.(sub category of worsted yarns, colour terms)

Mock

1. Imitation.
2. To be opposed. Two ends that lift opposite to each other are described as 'mocking', e.g., inplain weave, adjacent ends mock in plain order.

Mock cake

A package of yarn produced by winding on to a collapsible mandrel or former, which is subsequently removed. It is built up from the inside to the outside in contrast to a cake.

Mock Dyeing

A heat stabilization process for yarns. The yarns are wound onto packages and subjected to package dyeing conditions (water pressure temperature) but without dye an chemicals in the bath.