stocking-framen.
A machine for producing material composed of the looped stitch used in knitting; a knitting machine. The invention of a machine for making plain stocking-net to supersede hand-knitting is believed to have been made in 1589 by William Lee M.A., St. John's Coll. Cambridge, a native of Woodborough, near Nottingham.
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stocking-frame1710
stocking loom1715
stocking machine1843
ribber1877
knitter1890
raschel1926
1710 London Gaz. No. 4649/4 Wm. Brown,..by Trade a Stocking-frame Smith.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 392 Improvement of the Stocking-frame.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 300/1 The inventor of the round stocking-frame was..Sir Marc I. Brunel, who in 1816 patented his machine under the name of the Tricoteur.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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