Definition of Stocking frame. Meaning of Stocking frame. Synonyms of Stocking frame

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Definition of Stocking frame

Stocking frame
Stocking Stock"ing, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.] A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

Meaning of Stocking frame from wikipedia

- A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589....
- Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. 16), also known as the Frame-Breaking Act and before p****age as the Frame Work Bill, was...
- be an English clergyman. He was the inventor who devised the first stocking frame knitting machine in 1589, the only one in use for centuries. Its principle...
- the commercial manufacture of lace during the nineteenth century. The stocking frame was a mechanical weft-knitting knitting machine used in the textile...
- blast furnace had been used in China since the 4th century BC. The stocking frame, which was invented in 1598, increased a knitter's number of knots per...
- to the stocking frame that allowed the production of ribbed stockings. Their machine became known as the Derby Rib machine, and the stockings it produced...
- Margaret Yeo, of London, in 1473. With the invention in 1589 of the stocking frame, an early form of knitting machine, knitting "by hand" became a craft...
- Jedediah Strutt adds a second set of needles to Lee's stocking frame thus creating the rib frame. 1764 – James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning...
- protection against the harsh weather encountered while out fishing. The stocking frame or the mechanical knitting machine was invented in 1589 by William Lee...
- England. The stocking frame invented in 1589 for silk became viable when in 1759, Jedediah Strutt introduced an attachment for the frame which produced...