Knitted fabric and method of producing the same

A method for producing a knitted single-jersey fabric with a closed terminal seam on a knitting machine comprising two needle beds, stitch forming needles, a racking device, means for transferring the formed stitches from the needle bed where they are formed to the other needle bed, and a needle-selecting device, said method comprising:

• (i) forming the selvedge stitches of the knitted fabric on one of the two needle beds;
• (ii) transferring the selvedge stitch of the last wale from the needles of the one needle bed which are holding that wale onto the corresponding needle of the other needle bed for racking;
• (iii) racking the other needle bed through a needle division step and providing therewith movement of the transferred last selvedge stitch to the level of the adjacent wale with its selvedge stitch;
• (iv) transferring the selvedge stitch of the adjacent wale to the needle of the other needle bed;
• (v) knitting off both transferred stitches with a thread so as to form a first linking stitch;
• (vi) racking the other needle bed again through a needle division step at the level of the next wale with its selvedge stitch;
• (vii) transferring the said selvedge stitch of said next wale to the needle of the other needle bed to the linking stitch found there;
• (viii) knitting off said transferred stitch of said next wale and said linking stitch to form a second linking stitch;
• and
• (ix) repeating steps (vi) to (viii) to form a desired number of wales.