Process for the production of a warp knit fabric with a basic material including a tricot stitch ground and a chain stitch ground as well as a pile laid over pile sinkers, forming pile loops which are knitted into the material. The pile sinkers are offset relative to their pile sinker bar by one needle division per stitch row so that the tricot ground can be formed. The chain stitch ground yarns form a loop only every other stitch row so that the looping is let out in the formation of the chain stitch ground once the yarn which forms the chain stitch ground has been displaced laterally by the pile sinker bar.