Method and circular warp knitting machine for knitting stockings

The method for knitting stockings comprises laying two systems of warp threads on knitting needles by means of two sets of guide needles and knitting a continuous hose which consists of a plurality of serially arranged stockings. Each stocking is made by knitting, in a sequence, with one-bar tricot stitch from one system of warp threads, an overturned welt 6 of the stocking and with two-bar tricot stitch from the two systems of warp threads, a leg, a heel portion, a sole portion and pull courses. After knitting the pull courses of the stocking, a garterband portion is knit with the loop length which is at least equal to the loop length of a cylindrical portion of the leg. In addition, at least two courses are knit with one-bar tricot stitch from one system of warp threads between the sole portion and the pull courses and between the pull courses and the garterband portion 5, respectively, to form boundary portions of the stocking thereby defining the length of the stocking and marking the point at which the hose is cut into individual stockings. A circular warp knitting machine used to carry out the method according to the invention, in addition to main stitch forming mechanisms, has stop motions of these mechanisms kinematically coupled to a control drum of the control device of the machine so that desired mechanisms might be disengaged and re-engaged in accordance with the method for knitting stockings to knit various portions of the stocking with either one-bar tricot stitch or two-bar tricot stitch.