A volume in Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries series on the knitting industry, covering the history of hand and machine knitting, yarn preparation, the principles of knitted fabrics, hand-knitting machines, and the manufacture of hosiery, underwear, fancy fabrics, outer garments and gloves. It closes with trimming and finishing processes such as scouring, milling, pressing, singeing and drying. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs of machines, needles, stitch structures and fabric swatches. The scan includes the publisher's advertising pages and dust cover.

Three pages from the Knitting Department of the trade journal Textiles (pp. 25-27). John Chamberlain's installment on the manufacture of knit goods covers the straight bar (fashioning) knitting machine: needle-head paths for knitting and fashioning courses, needle bar, sinker and narrowing mechanism control, and care, adjustment and fault-finding for good selvages. Shorter items follow on grades of silk hosiery (pure dye, dipped, ingrain) and a patented thread-cutting attachment for looping machines.

A two-page installment of the Knitting Department in Textiles by John Chamberlain, on the manufacture of fashioned hosiery on flat knitting frames. It explains the fashioning (narrowing) course, in which points remove and retransfer selvage loops, and the operator's tasks on the legging frame and footing frame. It ends with a short note on a wire take-up attachment for yarn slack on a knitting machine. Two figures (Figs. 12 and 13) show needles and points during loop transfer.