Illustrated instructions for setting up and running the Bickford family knitting machine, also for making the different articles thereon .. (1871)
Bickford, Dana. [from old catalog] · Hartford, Case, Lockwood & Brainard, printers · leaf 35
it in two pieces and joined on the back Avhere it is narrowed ;it is knit of two colors in the zig-zag stitch—around the wrist and topof the gauntlet it is trimmed with a narrow strip of tufting of twocolors, and a bow on the back. No family should think of being without one of these… … wool. If you wish for more elasticity than you get from the stitch,you can knit in a strip of rubber cord. Fig. 16.
Knitting machines
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