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...

Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. 16), also known as the Frame-Breaking Act and before passage as the Frame Work Bill, was...

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...

Brussels point lace. These early machines were modifications of the stocking frame with an additional warp beam. In 1795, the machine was successfully...

protection against the harsh weather encountered while out fishing. The stocking frame or the mechanical knitting machine was invented in 1589 by William Lee...

a total of 41979 yards of Ipswich lace made by local women in that time frame. Lace making continued through the end of the century and into the early...

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...

Bobbinet Chemical Leavers Nottingham Lace Curtain Machine Pusher Raschel Stocking Frame Warp Knit Other handmade laces Chancay gauze Lace knitting Liturgical...

mechanically. The forerunner of the bobbinet machine was the 1589 stocking frame, a weaving frame fitted with a bar of bearded needles that passed back and forth...

The Protection of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 55) was an Act of Parliament passed by the British Government in 1788 and aimed at increasing...

England. The stocking frame invented in 1589 for silk became viable when in 1759, Jedediah Strutt introduced an attachment for the frame which produced...

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woollen, silk and later cotton garments. Hosiery was knitted using a stocking frame invented by William Lee in the 1580s. Until the 18th century, most garments...

Three to four stockings could be knit in a week by 1450. William Lee invented a stocking frame in 1589 that could knit one stocking per day. Acceptance...

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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...

china painter Hugh Thackeray Turner. Among the items on display is a stocking frame, donated to the museum in 1936 by Allen, Solly and Company of Arnold...

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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...

can be seen in The Lace Maker by Caspar Netscher. The pillow has a wooden frame, and is slightly sloping. The lace-maker rests it on her lap. Another representation...

wedding sashes. The natural elasticity of sprang makes it suitable for stockings, hair nets, sleeves, bags, scarves, and other purposes where pliant material...

the Leavers machine. Most lace machines stem from the weft-knitting Stocking frame. The Leavers machine is a derivative of Heathcoat's 1809 Old Loughborough...

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commercially viable synthetic rubber William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frame knitting machine Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction...