Method for manufacturing tubular article provided with gripping area by means of circular hosiery knitting machine and tubular article obtained by said method

The present application relates to a method of manufacturing a tubular article provided with a gripping area by means of a circular hosiery knitting machine and a tubular article obtained by the method, the method comprising using a circular hosiery knitting machine having at least two feeders or droppers, wherein the at least one first feeder is able to dispense a bare elastomeric yarn (3). According to the method of the invention, at a first feeder, at least one of the at least one set of consecutive needles is moved to a'tuck 'position or to a'drop' position for knitting to pick up the bare elastomeric yarn (3), while the other needles of the set of needles are held or moved to a'miss' position, and thus prevented from picking up the bare elastomeric yarn (3), and the other needles of the set of needles are held or moved to the'miss' position to pick up the bare elastomeric yarn (3). And the needles of the set of needles are actuated at at least one subsequent feeder to pick up one or more yarns dispensed