Basic knitted fabrics

[3] Stocking-stitch fabric is very smooth and each column ("wale") resembles a stacked set of "V"'s.

Garter-stitch fabric has significant lengthwise elasticity and little tendency to curl, due to the symmetry of its faces.

Seed/moss-stitch fabrics lie flat; the symmetry of their two faces prevents them from curling to one side or the other.

Faggoting is a variation of lace knitting, in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease.

Like most lace fabrics, faggoting has little structural strength and deforms easily, so it has little tendency to curl despite being asymmetrical.

Other classes of basic knitted fabrics include ribbing, welting, and cables.

Garter stitch
Moss stitch
Faggoting lace
An example of knitted ribs, created by knitting and purling across the same row.
The bottom of this piece shows an example of ribbing, created by alternating knit stitches and purl stitches across the same row.