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2. Spool knitting - Wikipedia

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   Spool knitting is a traditional way to teach children the basic principles of knitting. According to Mary McCormack, author of Spool Knitting (published in 1909), "Few elementary exercises have aroused more interest in the child than the toy knitting; due, perhaps, to its simplicity and his power to do it easily and well." [2] [3]

3. Knitting machine - Wikipedia

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   A modern industrial knitting machine in action industrial circular knitting fabric machines. A knitting machine is a device used to create knitted fabrics in a semi or fully automated fashion. There are numerous types of knitting machines, ranging from simple spool or board templates with no moving parts to highly complex mechanisms controlled ...

4. William Lee (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The quatercentenary of the invention was celebrated in 1989 with the publication Four Centuries of Machine Knitting: Commemorating William Lee's Invention of the Stocking Frame in 1589, a book of historical studies on the evolution of knitting technologies and the history of the knitting economy.

5. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   Knitting can also be performed by machines. The first knitting machine, known as the stocking frame, was invented in England in 1589. [25] Modern knitting machines, both domestic and industrial, are either flat-bed or circular. [23] Flat-bed knitting machines knit back and forth, producing a flat piece of fabric.

6. Wrights (textile manufacturers) - Wikipedia

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   Wrights is a brand of trim and other textiles for home sewing.It, and its subsidiary Lending Textile, operates using Wright, EZ Quilting, Boye and Bondex as brands. Since November 2017, it has been part of CSS Industries.

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.

8. Knitting needle - Wikipedia

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   To achieve the world record in 2018, Bond needed to knit at least 10 stitches and 10 rows of yarn with her needles. The yarn she used for the feat was made of 35 pounds of machine knitted, hand-twisted cotton material. [2] She beats Julia Hopson of Penzance in Cornwall. Julia had knitted a tension square of ten stitches and ten rows in stocking ...

9. Gauge (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   The term "gauge" is used in knitting to describe the fineness size of knitting machines. It is used in both hand knitting and machine knitting. The phrase in both instances refers to the number of stitches per inch rather than the size of the finished article of clothing. The gauge is calculated by counting the stitches (for hand knitting) or ...