knitting machine
Noun
Meaning
a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics
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A modern knitting machine in the process of weft knitting Weft-knit fabrics may also be knit with multiple yarns, usually to produce interesting color patterns.
The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade.
It was the development of the knitting machine that introduced hooked needles and enabled faultless, automated knitting.
He saw a market for colourful clothes, and sold a younger brother's bicycle in order to buy his first second-hand knitting machine.