High pile fabric

A method of producing a high pile fabric simulating an animal pelt or fur on a multi-feed circular weft knitting machine which comprises feeding a plurality of loose fibers in the form of carded slivers to a fiber-collecting station disposed adjacent a needle bed of the multi-feed circular weft knitting machine so that the needles in the bed pass the station during knitting, effecting a needle preselection on the knitting machine to raise selected knitting needles from a first, non-fiber collecting level in which the needles do not collect fibers at said fiber-collecting station to a second, fiber-collecting level in which the selected needles collect fibers from said fiber-collecting station during the passage of said selected needles past said station, permitting said selected needles to collect fiber from said fiber-collecting station, and effecting a needle reselection in predetermined pattern sequence while said preselected needles are collecting fiber from said fiber-collection station so to provide a variation in the needles which collect fiber.