Process for manufacturing a textile item by means of a circular weft knitting machine, and textile item realized by means of this process

A process for manufacturing a textile item (1) by means of a circular weft knitting machine, the process comprising the steps of:

• arranging a circular knitting machine having the following features:
• the circular knitting machine is a circular weft knitting machine;
• the circular knitting machine is a seamless circular knitting machine;
• the circular knitting machine comprises at least one feed and a needle-bearing organ supporting a plurality of needles, defining a circular needle bed, which can be operated to pick up the threads dispensed by said at least one feed and to form weft knitted fabric;
• said needle-bearing organ being rotatable relative to said feed and said feed being arranged in proximity to said needle-bearing organ;
• the circular knitting machine comprises a plurality of knockover sinkers, which are operatively associated with said plurality of needles;
• programming said knitting machine so as to define a textile item to be manufactured, said textile item consisting of a plurality of successive stitch rows (R);
• producing weft knitted fabric with said circular knitting machine so as to manufacture said textile item, according with the aforesaid programming step;
• wherein in said programming step at least one designed motif is set, defined on at least two successive stitch rows, following one another, in which a portion of terrycloth knitted fabric (S) is present in at least one of the two successive rows, and
• wherein said designed motif, set in said programming step, is defined on a plurality of consecutive rows and consists of a serial repetition, for a certain number of times more than 1, of said two successive stitch rows, so as to obtain a structure with alternating rows, consisting of an alternating sequence of first rows and second rows of said two successive rows.