Defects occurring at knitting, dyeing, linking, boarding, cutting and sewing individually or collectively give rice to faults in hosiery which are detected by the naked eye apart from the undetectable winding faults and yarn faults. In this study these faults have been considered in eight different classes and given in tabulated form. Due to practical difficulties such as interruption to production flow and difficulties in introducing new methods, this study has been limited to a few suggestions only. This work could be used for a more detailed study in faults in hosiery including shrinkage after dyeing of stretched nylon and acrylic for hosiery knitted fabrics
