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Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American School (Lansing, Ill.)
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile industry
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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LATCH NEEDLE RIB KNITTING MACHINE WITH REVOLVING CYLINDERAND AUTOMATIC CHANGE FROM PLAIN TO TUCKED STITCHES Nye & Tredick Company KNITTING. PART 11. LATCH NEEDLE KNITTING. Latch-Needle Knitting has been exploited to a much greaterextent than has Spring-Needle Knitting. It enters into the manu-facture of almost every line of knitted goods, is a leader in the stock-ing industry, and nearly, if not quite so, in the underwear mills. Since the time of Walter Aiken, latch needles have been used invarious positions to make fabrics of a great variety of stitches; andin different systems, as the Lamb, Heginbotham, and Leighton.Since the invention of the dial plate for supporting a series ofneedles, horizontal to and in conjunction with the vertical needlesin the cylinder, latch-needle circular frames have been utilized toa great extent in the production of all kinds of knitted wearing ap-parel, outer as well as under garments. For knitting fabrics forunderwear, or more specifically shirts

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