The science of knitting : an illustrated reference book of the elementary principles of knit fabrics and machine knitting, including fundamental conventions, definitions, rules, formulas and tables, for the student, operator, manufacturer and analyst (1914)
Tompkins, Ernest, 1869-, Wildman Mfg. Co · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 124
The Science of Knitting 104 machines for flat work, rib work or hosiery. It will be found that when the yarn is running into the needles, it revolves in the direction in which a corresponding screw would revolve when being screwed into a piece of wood. In other words, yarn with right-hand twist… … Illustralion 2. anti-clockwise. Moreover, the rate of turning is quite rapid, sometimes amounting to one turn in less than an inch of the yarn travel. Yam Twist Most Important in Making it Revolve. — From this it is evident that the influence of the twist of the yarn itself has much more to do with…
Machine knitting
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