stocking frame
Britishnoun
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In the late 16th century, an English inventor developed a knitting machine known as the stocking frame.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2017
By hand, workers averaged 100 stitches per minute; with the stocking frame, they averaged 1,000.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2017
In the early nineteenth century, a more sophisticated version of the stocking frame became the focus of the Luddites’ rage; in towns like Liversedge and Middleton, in northern England, textile mills were looted.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016
The "stocking frame," or machine knitting, was invented in the time of Queen Elizabeth, but did not get into actual use until the next century.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts
His attempt so far succeeded that, by means of the stocking frame invented in the previous century, he produced, in 1768, not lace, but a kind of knitting of running loops or stitches.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Goldenberg, Samuel L.
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