Stocking
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Encyclopedia article on stockings and the stocking frame from Rees's Cyclopedia (1819). It covers the disputed origins of knitting and the stocking loom, the account of William Lee's invention in 1589, the framework knitters' company, and the hosiery trade in Leicestershire and other English towns. The later pages give a detailed mechanical description of the frame: needles, sinkers, jacks, the presser-bar, treadles and the sequence of movements that forms a course of loops. An engraved plate by J. Farey and W. Lowry illustrates the machine.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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