Talk:Knitting machine

Image

While the close-up of the needles in the current image is useful, I think that it would be good to have an image of such a machine from a distance. From the current explanation it is rather hard to image what such a machine might look like (or maybe my imagination is just highly limited!)Jimjamjak (talk) 16:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

File:Stocking factory2.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Stocking factory2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 28, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-06-28. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 19:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the day

An 1886 advertisement for a hosiery firm that depicts its factory floor with workers using knitting machines. Knitting machines produce various types of knitted fabrics, usually either flat or tubular, and of varying degrees of complexity. There are numerous types of knitting machines, ranging from the simple, non-mechanical, to the highly complex and electronic. Pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, or with push-buttons and dials, mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern-reading devices and computers.Image: Cooper, Wells & Co.; Restoration: Lise Broer

Re-structuring?

The article as it is currently written mainly addresses domestic knitting machines. Industrial and semi-industrial machines are not really touched at all. I feel the article could benefit from being structured anew, having sections for history, industrial, semi-industrial, and domestic knitting machines. Would tricot and other warp knitting machines be suitable to mention here at least under the industrial machines section, or is that too much like weaving? Pirvonen (talk) 07:38, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I agree that restructuring would help. Given that Weft and Warp knitting are fundamentally different, and their products have different properties, there ought to be separate sections to cover Weft Knitting, and Warp Knitting. FreeFlow99 (talk) 13:35, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

No History Section?

There should be a section explaining the history of these machines. When the first one was invented, by whom, etc. 2601:145:4301:8F60:C8AE:F655:5807:E8EF (talk) 19:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)