Warp-knit slide fastener stringer half and method of making same

In a slide-fastener stringer having a pair of slide-fastener halves each with a knitted support tape and a continuous coupling element of synthetic resin monofilament whose coupling heads interdigitate with the coupling heads of the other coupling element upon movement of a slide therealong, each knitted tape having a warp and an inlaid weft defining valleys along the warp, and a row of double lock stitching connecting the respective coupling element with the tape and lying in one of the valleys, the improvement wherein:

• the warp comprises a multiplicity of warp yarn in a twill pattern of warp loop chains each forming two wales with the warp loop chains each overlapping an adjacent warp loop chains each overlapping an adjacent warp loop chain at a common wale;
• and the weft comprises two groups of weft yarns, the yarns of one group extending over three wales, the yarns of the other group lying respectively each in only one of said wales, said warp yarns being in 0--0/2-0 pattern, said weft yarns of said one group being in 3--3/0--0 pattern and the weft yarns of said other group being in 1--1/0-0 pattern.