Category: Gauge
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Passap E8000 knitting machine
Passap E8000 knitting machine is probably my dream machine, but an unachievable dream because I understand that this is a completely different beast and is unlike any other knitting machine. Passap E8000 was the last machine manufactured by the Swiss company Passap. It was released to the market in 1997. So, while I am looking…
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Mattel Knitting machine, 16 needles
Mattel’s circular plastic knitting machine was released to the market in 1975 by the toy company Mattel. It has 16 needles and can only knit simple stockinet stitches. Some patterning is possible with manual stitch manipulation. It is a simple small knitting machine capable of forming stitches when the handle is cranked in circular motion.…
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Brother KH220 knitting machine
Brother KH220 knitting machine is a bulky (9 mm gauge) machine with only manual capabilities. It features 110 needles. I did not knit on this machine but it looks very similar, if not identical, to Brother KH210 that I had a chance to work on: the color combination, the carriage shape, the needle markings, etc.…
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Brother KR850 ribbing attachment
Ribbing attachment was developed to convert single-bed flat-bed knitting machines into double-bed knitting setups. Thus, Brother KR850 ribber works on most standard-gauge Brother knitting machines released in the early 1970s and later. I have yet to find specific information (on the Internet and in old magazines) about when this ribber was first introduced to the…
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Brother KH890 knitting machine
Brother KH890 knitting machine was manufactured and released to the market in 1979. It is a metal flatbed knitting machine with 200 needles, positioned 4.5 mm apart. This is a standard gauge machine. It has the ability to accept patterns in the form of punch cards. The punch-card reader (which accepts 24-hole (in one row)…
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Brother KH930 electronic knitting machine
Brother KH930 knitting machine was released to the market in 1986. It comes with at least two color variations: standard yellow/brown and white/bluish color combinations (the anniversary edition). Sometimes KH930 is branded as ElectroKnit and/or CompuKnit III and/or KnitKing III or even Topical-3. The typical variety has a coffee-burgundy color combination and is very likely…
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Brother KR551 ribbing attachment
Ribbing attachment Brother KR551 was released to the market in the mid-1960s. It has 200 needles positioned 4.5 mm apart. This ribber fits Brother KH500, KH550, and KH551 knitting machines. Since other 4-pushbutton machines are identical to KH551, it is very likely Brother KR551 ribber would fit other 4-pushbutton knitting machines: Brother KH511, KH521, and…
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Studio SRN321 ribbing attachment
Ribbing attachments, or ribbers, add-ons to main knitting machines to convert 200 needle knitting machine into a 400 needle unit. Additionally, the ribbers can knit purl stitches without hand manipulations. They offer also other patterning possibilities depending on the ribber itself as well as machine/ribber combination. SRN-321 ribbers were introduced to the market in 1972…
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Singer MemoMatic 328 knitting machine
The Singer MemoMatic 328 knitting machine was released to the market in 1978. It is a standard-gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine with 200 needles. I have not had a chance to work with this machine yet so the pictures below were provided by someone else and published here with permission. The machine is almost identical…
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Brother KH871 knitting machine
I did not have experience with this machine and the pictures below were provided by someone else. It is a standard (4.5 mm) gauge machine with 200 needles and patterning capabilities through punchcards. It is also branded as Palie (similar to some other models). It is a standard machine with built-in knit leader. It seems…
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Singer MemoMatic 321 knitting machine
The Singer MemoMatic 321 knitting machine appeared on the market in 1972. It is a standard-gauge knitting machine (which means the needles are 4.5 mm apart) with 200 needles. It can come under other brand names, like Studio and/or Silver Reed. It features a flat metal bed with 200 needles, located 4.5 mm apart, which…
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Singer HK100 knitting machine
Singer HK100 knitting machine is a plastic flat bed knitting machine. The needles are large and are 8 mm apart. It was released to the marker in 1983. The simplicity of this machine (only basic/manual patterning capabilities) and its plastic bed makes me think that the target audience was the hobbyists, looking to destash their…