Knitting machine facts for kids
A knitting machine is a device used to create knitted fabrics in a semi or fully automated fashion. Machine knitting saves a considerable amount of time but does require learning to operate the machines correctly.
There are numerous types of knitting machines, ranging from simple spool or board templates with no moving parts to highly complex mechanisms controlled by electronics. All, however, produce various types of knitted fabrics, usually either flat or tubular, and of varying degrees of complexity. The fabric produced using a knitting machine is of a more even texture than hand-knitted fabric.
Pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, or with push-buttons and dials, mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern reading devices and computers.
Images for kids
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A modern industrial knitting machine in action
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industrial circular knitting fabric machines
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Six stages in the knitting machine cycle
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Advertisement for a late 19th-century hosiery firm that depicts its factory floor with workers using knitting machines. Published 1886.
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Modern electronic knitting machines
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A hobbyist spool knitting machine operates on a crank.
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A flatbed home knitting machine
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A sock-knitting machine in use
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Circular Knitic open source hardware knitting machine
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Knitting machine yarn bobbins
See also
In Spanish: Máquina de punto para niños
