Punching cards for tuck patterning involves lots of holes. Punched areas knit, unpunched ones tuck or skip selected needles.
There are many ways to experiment with color changes, sometimes in yarns of different thickness, using familiar repeats such as this punchcard design. 
In this test swatch, the red yarn is a 2/18 silk/wool blend, and the thinner blue polyester serger thread that forms a bubbly surface on the knit side. Colors were changed every 8 rows. The programmed electronic repeat including a knit stitch border at each side edge, 61X16 
This 12X42 configuration is typical, with tuck shapes forming on a knit ground; 
replacing knit areas with alternate tuck patterning, a larger design, 24X54
rendered double length, 24X108
When colors are changed every 2 rows, the result is very different than the maze/mosaic effects sometimes formed when using combined knit/tuck patterning 
A decade ago, Ribber fabrics with main bed tuck patterning 1/ pick rib
introduced this fabric, which lies flat and, depending on yarn choices, can appear to produce eyelets and has a soft drape
When combined with planned needles out of work, some patterns will form what are sometimes referred to as mock aran designs. This first repeat is built with simple blocks. The all-white vertical columns represent areas where needles are transferred from the main bed to the ribber. The tucked main bed areas shorten and widen the transferred stitches, pushing them apart and forming vertical “waves”.
24X24
The resulting knit is narrow and retains its 3D quality if wool is used, but acrylic or blends and some natural fibers will flatten permanently if pressed.
The proof of concept worked on 60 stitches:
A 2026 pattern, starting with a 9X20 PNG, includes all white columns planned for stitch transfers down to the ribber with emptied needles taken out of work. 
The cyan columns indicate the location of the transfers in the swatch. 
The resulting textures using the same repeat executed as a pick rib with every needle in work on the ribber.
A “fail” of sorts, a diamond shape was tested. To start with, I ran out of the first yarn. There were some rough spots in the ribber-stitch formations. When steamed, the vertical knit columns flattened at the center while outlining the ruffled edges, which may serve as edgings. 
When searching for tuck aran online, all finds include single-bed patterning, where tuck or knit stitches create narrow vertical columns between the larger designs.
Often, the pieces pictured are blankets produced on 9mm KM models.
Fewer versions bring the ribber into play.
Experiments can begin with designs commonly found in cards supplied with new machine purchases or with repeats found in punchcard volumes, converted for use on electronic machines or altered to suit.
A straightforward approach to double bed experiments is to use designated tuck lace cards and transfer any stitches on needles marked to be taken out of work down to the ribber, or, in a slightly different method, rather than stitches on the main bed being transferred down to the ribber and the corresponding needles moved out of work on the top bed, the main bed stitches are left undisturbed and added needles are brought into work in matching placements on the ribber.
The 24X24 starting repeat was redrawn in brick configuration, with added columns to accommodate ribber stitches, 26X24 
knit-tested on 53 stitches, with vertical 2-stitch columns of black pixels to form ribbed side edges. 
The purple columns indicate areas where needles are brought into work on the ribber, pitch on H, and in addition, for smoother rib columns, the ribber is set to knit in one direction and slip in the other.
The design was tested on the single bed before adding ribber stitches. The yarn is also wool silk, knit at a much tighter tension than the red swatch, making it reluctant in spots to knit stitches off properly, seen in the extra tiny tucks in a couple of spots, so worth visually checking the knit regularly. 
Returning to the block design, color inverted for use with the tuck stitch setting, 24X24, 
test knitting planned on 51 stitches, with cyan cells indicating stitches that will be brought into work on the ribber. 
The yarn used is a 2/20 wool, thinner than in the first blue version. The vertical column outlining the patterned areas is smoother on the purl side, less defined than the purl versions on the knit side.
In these first two samples, knit stitch blocks alternating with tuck stitch ones aim for a wavy expansion of the rib columns while keeping the 24-stitch card constraint. 
The 24X20 PNG 
was knit on 61 stitches, with a single ribber stitch border on each side. 
The 24X20 repeat may be punched in height X2 for use on punchcard models. The 24X20 PNG.
The swatch was knit on 62 stitches, with a 2-stitch rib column on each side. It was not possible to use a tighter tension on the top bed while keeping the stitch formation error-free. 
Moving from card repeats to electronic ones frees one from width 24 stitch repeat constraints, as seen here:
Card #3 is contained in most with purchase KM punchcard models. 
Using the basic repeat, the chart shows varying the original while
making it outside the range of execution on punchcard models. 
The 10X24 related chart and PNG,
The repeat used for the swatch, including planned transfers to the ribber, is 63X24 
the The yarn used is Merino wool. 
These knits narrow and lengthen when removed from the machine.
Working with blocks of patterning, a 24X32 design. 
The all white pixels/unpunched squares indicate areas where the stitches are transferred down to and up from the ribber
Cancel the end needle selection since there will be needles out of work on the top bed.
When transfers are made to the top bed from the ribber, the needle selection needs to be maintained and is easy to recognize.
The swatch was knit in in a 50/50 blend of silk/wool, was far narrower and more 3D, light steming flattened the result considerably and permanently. 
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From a Studio punchcard volume, 
the corresponding PNGs
1: 24X44,
2: 24X48,
3: 24X48,
4: 24X48, 
and mirrored patterning from the StitchWorld III Brother Pattern Book, 146X32
Beginning with the 24X44 #1 pattern, variations adding stitch transfers to ribber: 
a 24X32 repeat
planned with knit bed tuck stitch vertical borders on each side, 62X32 
A second variation: 
the PNG
the 63X32 swatch repeat also planned with knit stitch borders on each side 
the resulting swatch 
Using repeat #2
the 24X48 PNG
the swatch repeat 59X48 
Small changes can easily be made in knit bed pattern areas to make the result more personal.
A 31X48 electronic variation combining elements from the inspiration repeats 
was knit single bed on 70 stitches, 48 rows with an added knit stitch programmed at each side edge
the yarn used is a 2/18 wool silk blend, accounting for some of the differences in shading and light sheen. After steaming and light pressing, there was some loss of the 3D textures. 
Assorted single and double bed patterns with needles out of work, NOOW:
Tuck lace trims and fabrics 2
Tuck lace trims and fabrics 3
“Crochet” meets machine knitting techniques: tuck lace trims and fabrics 1”
“Crochet” meets machine knitting techniques: tuck lace trims or fabrics 2