Hosiery
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A short encyclopedia entry on hosiery, defined as stocking manufacture and more broadly all knitted goods made by hand or machine. It outlines the origins of stockings and the invention of knitting, William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, and the spread of the industry in colonial and 19th-century America. It ends with U.S. production figures for 1899 and 1909.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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