Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . itted to the form; but they required the constant attention ofa skilled knitter, until pattern mechanism was introduced to control the timeof introduction of the colored or additional thread, and the place for forma-tion of the narrowed or widened web. In forming the heel and toe pockets,a part o
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . itted to the form; but they required the constant attention ofa skilled knitter, until pattern mechanism was introduced to control the timeof introduction of the colored or additional thread, and the place for forma-tion of the narrowed or widened web. In forming the heel and toe pockets,a part of the needles are thrown out of action, and the movements to operatethe active needles are changed from round and round, or circular work, toreciprocating. At each reciprocation one or more needles, at the end of theseries, are rendered inactive, until one half the required pocket is formed;then they are successively returned to action, and circular knitting may be also an additional thread is introduced to reinforce the wearingqualities of the heel and toe, or a differently colored yarn may be thrown into give figure, but all such movements are now automatically controlled hya pattern mechanism. The ribbed leg portion of a stocking is formed either THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 145. KNITTING IN THE OLD WAV. in the same machine that fashions the foot or in a separate machine to whichthe foot is transferred, but in either case the pattern mechanism again controls. Within the last twenty years this art has been SO -really improved, es-pecially in the hosiery line, that the automatic machine of to-day passesthrough the entire operation of knitting the arti-cle, finishing it off, and starting afresh withoutother aid than a supply of yarn. Moreover, themachine now to be considered practical must beso constructed, that it will continue thus to oper-ate without repairs or loss of time from month tomonth ; and its daily output will average morethan the old hand machines coul
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