Category: Brother
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KnitKing III electronic knitting machine
KnitKing III is the brand name of the Japanese Knitting machine Brother KH930. Read all the details of this machine in the article dedicated to Brother KH930, including capabilities and pros and cons. Other known names are ElectroKnit 930(e), CompuKnit III and/or Topical-3.
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Brother KA-395 carriage
Brother KA395 carriage is a so-called reversible carriage. It is an add-on attachment for plastic flat-bed Japanese machines Brother KH360, Brother KH370 and Brother KH380. I am currently researching the details on this carriage and there are not many. Stay tuned!
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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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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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Brother KH521 knitting machine
Brother KH521 knitting machine is a 4-push button machine with 200 needles, spaced 4.5 apart. I just became an owner of the KH521/KR321 setup so stay tuned while I am putting my notes together and scanning a copy of the manual. It was manufactured in the early 1960s. It is possible that it was released…
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Brother KH836 knitting machine
Brother KH836 knitting machine was released to the market at the end of 1970s. It is a standard machine with 200 needles, positioned 4.5 mm apart. This knitting machine comes with a detachable row counter (which still can be purchased, for example, in my store), a 2-thread yarn mast and a 24-hole punch card reading…
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Stitch scales for knit leader for Brother KH871, KH881, KH891 and KH893 knitting machines
Some of my customers reached out to me and asked for knit leader scales for the Brother KH881 and KH891 knitting machines. Those are so hard to find! I did not have any spare ones so I took pictures and emailed to them. More people started asking for those and I decided to put them…
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Brother KH860 knitting machine
Brother KH860 knitting machine was released to the market in the second half of late 1970s (although, there are still manufactures who sell modern copies of KH860). It features 200 needles, positioned 4.5 mm apart. Thus, this is a standard-gauge knitting machine. It can pattern automatically using punchcards, inserted into punchcard reader. The maximum repeat…