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A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589. Its use, known traditionally as framework knitting, was the first major stage in the mechanisation of the textile industry, and played an important part in the early history of the Industrial ...
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The stocking frame was a mechanical weft-knitting knitting machine used in the textile industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589. Framework knitting, was the first major stage in the mechanisation of the textile industry at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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Knitting can also be performed by machines. The first knitting machine, known as the stocking frame, was invented in England in 1589. [24] Modern knitting machines, both domestic and industrial, are either flat-bed or circular. [22] Flat-bed knitting machines knit back and forth, producing a flat piece of fabric.
The Protection of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. c. 55) was an Act of Parliament passed by the British Government in 1788 and aimed at increasing the penalties for the deliberate disruption of the activity of mechanical knitting machines ( stocking frames ).
The Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. c. 16), also known as the Frame-Breaking Act and before passage as the Frame Work Bill , was an Act of Parliament passed by the British Government in 1812 aimed at increasing the penalties for Luddite behaviour in order to discourage it.