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
wool. If you wish for more elasticity than you get from the stitch,you can knit in a strip of rubber cord. Fig. 16. … Fig. 16 represents a ladiesor gents slipper, made of the tuftingstitch, with the tufts inside, also trimmed around the edge with tuft-ing ; the rosette is made of fringe with the loops whole. KNITTING MACHINE. 33 T^ig. 17.
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