Category: Brother
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Two-color Brother Garter Carriages
Every garter carriage can be converted to a two-color carriage. Basically, it is a plating technique. There are several version of the special adapters needed to convert your garter carriage onto a two-color garter carriage. The learning curve might seem steep. On top of your already acquired skills on a regular garter carriage, it might…
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Brother Garter Carriage KG-95
I am a proud owner of Brother KG95, so come back often as I am discovering new features and kinks. Also, check out my post about garter carriages in general: it has a lot of useful advises including on troubleshooting. Brother Garter Carriage, G-Carriage, Omni Carriage or Chariot-G with the model KG-95 is the latest…
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Brother KH868 knitting machine
Brother KH868 is a standard-gauge knitting machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. It was probably made only for the Japanese markets since I have not seen any KH868 models with non-Japanese writing on the machine and the carriage. The machine has built-in garter carriage rails. Overall, this model is very similar to Brother KH860…
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Defendi Modamatic Garter Carriage
Defendi Modamatic Garter carriage probably came with Defendi knitting machines, which are rebranded clones of Brother knitting machines. The carriage color scheme matches that of Defendi knitting machines. I am still trying to figure out what Brother garter carriage this model duplicates. Stay tuned!
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Knitking RKTC transfer carriage
RKTC transfer carriage (the same as Brother KA-8300 carriage) assists in quick transfer of stitches from the ribber to the main bed. It is especially handy when a large number of needles is involved. It is also useful for small production knitters. Sometimes it is hard to move it and sometimes, especially when not set…
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KnitKing Baby linker
Baby linker under the Knitking brand name looks and operates very similar to the Knitking Belinky linker, with the same features, pros and cons. Thus, refer to a corresponding post. Other straight linkers are Marusan CP-102 (the post for which has the most pictures and the most detail list of pros and cons of straight…
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KnitKing Belinky linker
Belinky linker under the brand name KnitKing is a manual stand-alone linker. It has detachable comb (not shown on any of the pictures below) that the fabric is cast onto. It is excellent for textiles that will benefit from being set straight (instead of in circle like in Hague, Erika, Silver Reed or other circular…
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Empisal KH-610 knitting machine
Also known as Empisal KH610 Computamatic, this knitting machine has 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart, which makes is a standard-gauge. The pictures below so far are the only ones I could find. But it looks that this machine is similar to Empisal KH680, as well as Brother KH587, Brother KH588, and Brother KH601.
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Empisal KH680 knitting machine
Empisal KH680 knitting machine features 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. Thus standard-gauge machine has a patterning center with eight pushbuttons to allow for semi-automatic needle selection. The machine comes with a lace carriage. The carriage handle is a screw on: Comptabitle ribbers are Brother KR580 (I used KR580 on KH585 and the needlebeds and carriages…
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Knitking KL116 knit leader
Charting devices Knitking KL116 is just another name for a Brother KL116 knit leader. Thus, read the corresponding post.