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2. Circular knitting - Wikipedia

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   Spool knitting is a form of circular knitting using pegs rather than needles, one peg per stitch. A variant automates the stitching action, thus producing a hand-crank circular knitting machine. Commercial knitting machines are heavy-duty powered versions of the hand-cranked ones; they may knit multiple threads at once, for speed.

3. Knitting needle - Wikipedia

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   Knitting educator and authority Elizabeth Zimmermann helped popularize knitting ITR specifically with circular needles. The Magic Loop method may be used to produce narrow tubular items such as socks. Numerous techniques have been devised for the production of narrow tubular knitting on circular needles.

4. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   Smaller items, such as socks and hats, are usually knit in one piece on double-pointed needles or circular needles. Hats in particular can be started "top down" on double pointed needles with the increases added until the preferred size is achieved, switching to an appropriate circular needle when enough stitches have been added.

5. Intarsia (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   There are several techniques to execute intarsia when circular knitting. Executing intarsia "in-the-round" eliminates the need for seams and, in one case, turning the piece and working from the wrong side. Priscilla Gibson-Roberts discusses four techniques for knitting intarsia in the round in her book, Ethnic Socks & Stockings. [1] [page needed]

6. Knitted fabric - Wikipedia

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   Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting, the process of inter-looping of yarns or inter-meshing of loops. Its properties are distinct from woven fabric in that it is more flexible and can be more readily constructed into smaller pieces, making it ideal for socks and hats.

7. Edouard Dubied & Co - Wikipedia

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   These knitting machines were originally designed for making socks and hosiery, and used a recently invented kind of mechanical needle. [ 1 ] His son, Paul-Edouard Dubied, who had trained as an engineer at the École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (French: Zurich federal polytechnic college ), succeeded him in 1878.