- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
-
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...
- The
Protection of
Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 55) was an Act of
Parliament p****ed by the
British Government in 1788 and
aimed at increasing...
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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...
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Bobbinet Chemical Leavers Nottingham Lace
Curtain Machine Pusher Raschel Stocking Frame Warp Knit
Other handmade laces Chancay gauze Lace
knitting Liturgical...
