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2. William Lee (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The following story exists but it is not supported by recent sources. [3] Lee was a curate at Calverton when he is said to have developed the machine because a woman whom he was courting showed more interest in knitting than in him (or alternatively that his wife was a very slow knitter).

3. 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.

4. 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 ...

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. [24] Modern knitting machines, both domestic and industrial, are either flat-bed or circular. [22] Flat-bed knitting machines knit back and forth, producing a flat piece of fabric.

6. 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 ...

7. Fully fashioned knitting - Wikipedia

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   Flat knitting machines are those machines which produce flat fabric of even width or by increasing or decreasing the number of stitches in the rows, flat but shaped pieces of fabric to be subsequently made up by sewing. Flat machines include machines for ordinary (weft) knitting and warp knitting.