attached to the reed guides the interlocking thread 24 from the knitting course 8 below the knitting needle 21 by an upwards motion of the interlocking thread guide 22 the interlocking thread 24 is laid into the head of the knitting needle 21 the knitting needle 21 is making stitches 25 out of the weft tuck and interlocking threads and is thus forming the knitting course 8 shown only schematically when the inserting needle 14 returns to the left the weft thread loop 16 1 is drawn to the left and in so doing is taking with it a tuck thread loop which has been made just then from the tuck thread 20 it further draws with it the previous loop 20 2 now knocked over from the knitting needle 21 by this time two heads 20 4 and 20 6 of tuck thread loops are hanging in the head of the drawn back weft thread loop 16 2 as shown in fig3 for the previous pick contrary to the previously known method there is fed so much tuck thread that during the reed motion the two heads 20 4 and 20 6 of the tuck thread loops are drawn by the weft thread loop 16 1 a distance.