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2. Henry Milward & Sons - Wikipedia

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   The earliest reference to the Milward family in connection with needle making is a James Milward who was a needle maker on Fish Hill in 1676. Symon Milward created the company of Henry Milward & Sons aka Milward's Needles (Milward's) in 1730 at the age of 40, in Redditch, United Kingdom. It was however, his son Henry who takes credit for the ...

3. Elizabeth Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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   Zimmermann immigrated to the United States from England in 1937 with her new husband, German brewery master Arnold Zimmermann. [5] The Zimmermanns initially settled in New York and eventually moved across country, finally settling in Wisconsin in a converted schoolhouse which would become home to Schoolhouse Press, a mail-order knitting business still based in the schoolhouse and run by her ...

4. Knitting needle - Wikipedia

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   Bamboo knitting needles A little dexterity is helpful in working with knitting needles . A knitting needle or knitting pin is a tool in hand-knitting to produce knitted fabrics. They generally have a long shaft and taper at their end, but they are not nearly as sharp as sewing needles. Their purpose is two-fold.

5. Stratton (company) - Wikipedia

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   Stratton is a brand of powder compacts, [1] lipstick holders and other devices and containers for cosmetics, made in Birmingham, England. The company also made costume jewellery. A pair of Stratton "Glide-link" cufflinks, in their original tray. The parent company was founded in 1860 as Stratnoid, and initially made knitting needles. [1]

6. Frances Lambert (needleworker) - Wikipedia

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   Standard Filiere for knitting needles by Frances Lambert in 1842. She married John Bell Sedgwick, a gentleman, in 1836. She enjoyed the business of Queen Adelaide and she was appointed "embroiderer in general" and "needlewoman in ordinary’" to Queen Victoria in 1837. [1] She has a substantial role in the history of knitting.

7. History of knitting - Wikipedia

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   Madonna Knitting, by Bertram of Minden 1400-1410 1855 sketch of a shepherd knitting, while watching his flock The Knitting Woman by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869. Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to pull and loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric.