A machine for producing material composed of the looped stitch used in knitting; a knitting machine.
The invention of a machine for making plain stocking-net to supersede hand-knitting is believed to have been made in 1589 by William Lee M.A., St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, a native of Woodborough, near Nottingham.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4649/4. Wm. Brown,… by Trade a Stocking-frame Smith.
1765. Museum Rust., IV. 392. Improvement of the Stocking-frame.
1881. Encycl. Brit., XII. 300/1. The inventor of the round stocking-frame was … Sir Marc I. Brunel, who in 1816 patented his machine under the name of the Tricoteur.
