Issue link: https://docs.hic.us/i/403552
HOLDING FIXTURES Devices used to hold or frame small or unusually shaped items, such as socks and gloves. Commonly used for delicate goods, rigid goods, gang loading applications, or to speed up the framing process to achieve production efficiency. HOOK Holds the bobbin case in the machine and plays a vital role in stitch formation. Making two complete rotations for each stitch, its point meets a loop of top thread at a precisely timed moment and distance (gap) to form a stitch. HOOP Device made from wood, plastic or steel with which fabric is gripped tightly between an inner ring and an outer ring. It attaches to the machine's pantograph. Machine hoops are designed to push the fabric to the bottom of the inner ring and hold it against the machine bed for embroidering. HOOPING BOARD Device that aids in hooping garments or items for embroidery, for hooping multi- layered items and for uniformly hooping multiple items. JUMP STITCH Movement of the pantograph without needle penetration, commonly used to get from one point in a design to another. LETTERING Embroidery using letters or words. Lettering commonly called "keyboard lettering" may be created from computer software, which allows variance of letter styles, size, height, density and other characteristics. LIP HOOPING This technique is also known as recessed hooping. It is useful when hooping bulky or slick fabrics, such as insulated jackets. The inner ring is pushed past the edge of the outer ring, so that the outer ring sticks up higher, forming a lip. This helps prevent the inner ring from being pushed up during the embroidery process, and places the goods flatter to the machine table. LOCK STITCH (1) This stitch is formed by three or four consecutive stitches of at least a 10 point movement. It should be used at the end of all columns, fills and any element where a trim will follow, such as color changes or the end of a design. May be stitched in a triangle or a straight line; (2) Lock Stitch is also the name of the type of stitch formed by the hook and needle of home sewing machines, as well as computerized embroidery machines. www.hsi.us care@hic.us 229