Category: Knitting Machine

  • Brother (Profile) KH588

    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…

  • 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…

  • Brother KH210 knitting machine

    Brother KH210 knitting machine is a “bulky” knitting machine. It is called bulky because it is capable of accepting thicker yarns. The needles are larger and are spread 9 mm from each other. It features a metal bed with 110 needles. The machine can easily handle challenging yarns: fuzzy, eyelash, thick acrylic, thick wool, staticky…

  • 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…

  • Brother Profile 551 knitting machine

    Brother Profile 551 knitting machine (sometimes called Brother KH551) is a standard gauge machine (with the space between needles equal to 4.5 mm). It was released to the market by Brother in 1960-ies. No other brand names exist to the best of my knowledge. I have no idea why these earlier models are called “Profile”…

  • Brother KH830 knitting machine

    Brother KH830 knitting machine was manufactured by Brother and released to the market in the late 1970-ies. Sometimes is branded as KnitKing. This is a standard knitting machine with 200 needles positioned 4.5 mm apart. Comes with a detachable row counter (available in my store), a two-thread yarn mast and a 24-hole (in one row)…