stocking-frame
A machine for producing material composed of the looped stitch used in knitting; a knitting machine.
The invention of a machine for making plain stocking-net to supersede hand-knitting is believed to have been made in 1589 by William Lee M.A., St. John's Coll. Cambridge, a native of Woodborough, near Nottingham.
| 1710 Lond. Gaz. No. 4649/4 Wm. Brown,..by Trade a Stocking-frame Smith. 1765 Museum Rust. IV. 392 Improvement of the Stocking-frame. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 300/1 The inventor of the round stocking-frame was..Sir Marc I. Brunel, who in 1816 patented his machine under the name of the Tricoteur. |