What are tatting clothes and hosiery?

　　Tatting clothes：

　　 Tatting clothes refer to the clothes made of the tatting fabric such as woolen cloth, silk and cotton. In tatting, twisted thread are tied around or through small pointed shuttles that are made of bone, mother-of-pearl, steel, or plastic. The textures processed in this way can be designed, cut and tailored into many kinds of clothes with varieties of shapes with desirable colorful printing according to different functions of clothes in relation to the quality, thickness and fine texture. It is quite flexible. Owing to the limitation of the crafting framework and the nature of shuttle machine, the producing cycle is quite long and not apt to the demand of the market.

　　Hosiery：

     Hosiery generally refers to the clothes knitted by knitting machines. There are different knitting machines such as circular machines to knit gray cloth, sock and stocking knitting machines and glove machines. Hosiery is full fashioned without any cutting. The working of knitting machine is highly related to the number of needles, stitch density and gauge and quantity of finishing additives.