there are 16 needles 42 per linear inch but there are 20 openings per linear inch of fabric in the yarn carrier 53 it will be appreciated that the spacing of the yarn in the openings in yarn carrier 53 are not the same as the number of yarns to be laid per linear inch of fabric in view of the angling of the yarn carrier 53 relative to the long axis of the fabric being formed the needles 42 are generally angled at approximately 5 u00b0 to 45 u00b0 to the forward direction of the bar it will thus be appreciated that in this preferred embodiment there are fewer needles than yarns because of this while some of the yarns will be wrapped around needles 42 and indeed in a few cases more than one yarn may wrap around the same needle some of the yarns will be impaled by the needle as illustrated by 74 in fig1 because of the systems of the prior art where the yarns were carried to the needles and fed over the needles by a tube this system of the present invention was basically impossible in the prior art in fact the impaling of a few of the yarns on the needles and the utilization of a number of yarns greater than the number of needles per linear inch provides for more uniform coverage and for the ability to form different densities of fabric particularly the density in a particular layer through.