The present invention provides a plating-knitted tubular fabric, a method for knitting the fabric, and a design apparatus which are able to solve the color blurring caused by the cross of yarns when a tubular shaped fabric is plating-knitted by a flatbed knitting machine.;As shown in Step 1, in a knitting course right before reversal of the knitting direction which knits a fabric up to the end portion of the knitting width in which cross occurs between the front yarn and the back yarn, stitches are formed except the final stitch on the knitting needle "A". As shown in Step 2, in a knitting course right after reversing the knitting direction, a twisted loop is formed on a knitting needle "A", and stitches are formed on knitting needles "b", "d", "f', ..., "t" of a needle bed B. The cross between the front yarn and the back yarn occurs at a portion in which the knitting yarn is crossed-over from the twisted loop on the knitting needle "A" to the stitch of knitting needle "b" and no cross is formed on the stitch "b". Therefore, the phenomenon in which the back yarn comes to the surface side causing color blurs can be made less noticeable. In such event, it is desirable to carry out racking in which needle bed B is displaced to the right by 2 pitches with respect to a needle bed F.
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