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2. 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 ...

3. Complete garment knitting - Wikipedia

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   The machines can produce a variety of topologies that were more difficult or impossible to create with knitting machines before, including: connected tubes, circles, open cuboids, and even spheres (for helmet shells and other preforms). Complete garment knitting requires two needle beds for three-dimensional structures (such as clothing).

4. 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.

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. 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.

7. 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 ...