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Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American School (Lansing, Ill.)
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile industry
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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the two sides of whichslope from each other like the roof of a house, and are separated atthe ridge, or center, where the needles form the stitches. A carriage is propelled by a crank back and forth over the needlebed. This carriage contains, under each side, an arrangement ofautomatic cams, called a lock, (one for each row of needles) for operat-ing the needles up and down in the grooves; and also carries a yarnguide for delivering the yarn from the bobbin into the hooks of theneedles as they are moved up by the cams. • As the carriage is drivenover the needle bed, the needles are moved up, fed by the yarn, anddrawn down almost simultaneously, all the needles forming stitcheswith one revolution of the crank. The lock is so constructed that by adjusting a cam stop, (thisbeing possible without stopping the machine) the cam lock may beopened or closed, (but engages the needles only when open) in sucha manner as to cause four different styles of fabric to be produced. 183 168 KNITTING
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184 KNITTING 169 as follows: By operating continuously the back row of needles towardthe right, and the front row toward the left, a tubular or circular webis produced. Operating both rows together in one direction andthen one row in the other direction, will produce the double flat web,or Afghan stitch. Operating both rows together in both directions,produces the ribbed or seamed flat vjeb, and operating forward andback each row alternately, connects the two rows of knitting at oneend, leaving them open at the other, thereby forming the wide flat web. In knitting any of the above webs, if every second, third or fourthneedle, or a combination of them, in one or both rows is not used,other varieties of stitches can be formed, which make different stylesof fabric. Only those needles which are moved up within range of the camare used. Any number of needles, in one or both rows, may beemployed at the start, and the number be increased or diminishedat any time, so any size of work, tubular

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