A flat textile product formed by creating rows or columns of interconnected meshes. The yarn in knitted fabric has a very high framing, which makes the knitted fabric very elastic and stretchy in all directions. Knitted fabric, unlike woven fabric, is created from a single thread on crochet machines, or from one, or multiple warps, on warp machines. Knitted fabrics can be plain, patterned, openwork, textured or pile-covered.