Category: Knitting Machine
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Brother KH500
Brother Profile 500 is a metal flatbed knitting machine with 200 needles 4.5 mm apart. It is a standard gauge machine with only basic patterning capabilities. Additionally, the end-caps are not plastic (like later Brother knitting machines) but metal, which makes them more robust and less prone to breaking (especially during shipment and transport) and…
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Brother Profile 583
I personally did not have a chance yet to work on this machine. It, however, is very similar to another 8-pushbutton knitting machine: Brother Profile 585. These are the pictures posted from the web with the permission of the original photographer. Other Brother standard-gauge 8-push button knitting machines are KH552, KH560, KH561, KH581, Profile 583,…
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Brother Profile/KH585
Brother Profile 585 knitting machine very likely appeared on the market at the very end of 1960-ies or at the very early 1970-ies. I had the pleasure of working on two Brother Profile 585 knitting machines and can attest to their wonderful work firsthand. Here are the links to two videos of me knitting using…
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Brother KH581 knitting machine
Brother KH581 was released to the market by Brother in 1969. It was released on both Western and Japanese markets: I saw carriages with both English-only (thanks for Cheylea H. for providing pictures) and Japanese-only writing. If you cannot find the manual, use the one from similar machines, like KH585 and KH588. Just search it…
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Brother (Profile) KH588
Brother KH588 knitting machine (also often called Brother Profile 588) is a gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine manufactured in Japan. Brother KH588 is a metal flatbed knitting machine. It features 200 needles (positioned 4.5 mm apart, which makes this machine a standard-gauge one). Additionally, the end-caps are not plastic (like later Brother knitting machines) but…
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Brother KH260 bulky knitting machine
Brother KH260 knitting machine was released to the market in 1984. Unlike it easier counterpart, Brother KH230, the KH260 model features a metal bed with 114 needles positioned 9 mm apart. Typicaly Brother KH260 knitting machine comes in a nice pastel brown-pinkish/beige color combination. An anniversary model Brother KH260e has greenish shades. It is identical…
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Brother KX350 knitting machine
Brother KX350 Home Knitter (also known as KnitKing Simple Seven) is a plastic-bed knitting machine with only basic/manual capabilities of manipulating stitches. It has 132 needles, positioned 7 mm apart. It is considered a mid-gauge knitting machine. It was manufactured and released to the market sometime in the early 1980-ies as a hobbyist and inexpensive…