Category: Basic/Manual
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Toyota APK knitting machine
Toyota APK knitting machine is the same as Toyota K108. Thus, read the corresponding post.
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Mitsubishi MH20 knitting machine
Mitsubishi MH-20 knitting machine is a standard-gauge machine with 200 needles. It is very likely a standard-gauge machine, thus, the distance between needles is 4.5 mm. Similar to its earlier couterparts, Mitsubishi MH-15 and MH-16, the carriage of Mitsubishi MH20 is very simplistic and has a screw-on handle, which makes me think that the machine…
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Mitsubishi MH-16 knitting machine
Mitsubishi MH16 knitting machine has 200 needles and seems like a standard-gauge machine with only basic/manual patterning/stitch-manipulation capabilities. It is similar to its earlier counterpart, Mitsubishi MH-15 but has a needle selection mini-carriage. This carriage probably moves before the main carriage and selects the needles in groups of 8, 10 or 12. Earlier Silver/Silver-Reed machines…
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Mitsubishi MH-15 knitting machine
Mitsubishi MH15 knitting machine looks like standard-gauge knitting machine with only manual/basic capabilities of patterning/stitch-manipulation. The machine was very likely made in the 1960s or earlier judging by a screw-on carriage handle an all-metal tool storage box. The metal feature on the left-hand side in the picture below is the reverse side of the needle…
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Empisal Knitmaster mod. 100 knitting machine
Empisal Knitmaster mod. 100 knitting machine is a standard-gauge machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. It is capable of only manual needle manipulation so it can knit only basic stitches. The carriage is very simple too. When I tried to compare this machine to any other model but under a different brand, I could…
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JUKI K-841 knitting machine
JUKI K-841 is a standard-gauge knitting machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. Not much is available about this machine. Judging by its vintage row counter, JUKI K-841 was manufactured in Japan very likely in the early 1960s. Additionally, a unique tension mast is also seen in the machines manufactured up to the late 1960s…
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Friend knitting machines
I found pictures of several models of Friend knitting machines, but I could not determine their model numbers. Thus, I included all of those (currently four) machines on one page. My research showed only scarce information!! I am looking for somebody to translate (from Japanese) one manual I found online to learn a bit more…
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Empisal Knitmaster mod. 250 knitting machine
Empisal Knitmaster mod. 250 appeared on the market in the mid-1960s. It is a standard-gauge knitting machine with 200 needles. I was told by an owner of Empisal Knitmaster mod. 250 that the needles are 5 mm apart. Despite, at first glance, only having basic/manual capabilities, the Empisal Knitmaster mod. 250 has a needle selector…
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Silver Reed LK330 knitting machine
Silver Reed LK330 knitting machine is a plastic-bed knitting machine with 140 needles, 6.5 mm apart. This is a mid-gauge knitting machine with only manual stitch manipulation capabilities. Silver LK-330 was very likely manufactured for the Japanese markets only. It is very similar to a very famous a Silver Reed LK150 model, on which there…
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Hello Hobby plastic circular knitting machine
The blue color and the cute name attracted me so much that this is one of the first circular knitting machine (of course after my most favorite Addi and most popular Sentro) in my Encyclopedia. Hello Hobby has 22 needles (similar to Add Express) and takes upto the worsted thickness yarn. It looks like it…
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Basic (but with needle selector) Singer 500 knitting machine
This is so important that I am writing it as a first sentence: Do not confuse this vintage basic/manual Singer 500 model with a more modern Singer 500 electronic model. I am not sure why they are NOT named differently but probably because these different models were meant for different markets. Singer 500 with basic/manual…
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Studio SK-101 knitting machine
The Studio SK101 knitting machine was made in Japan in 1962. It is a standard-gauge knitting machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. It is capable of only basic patterning techniques (only hand-manipulation of stitches). However, it has a needle-selector which helps to ease-up the patterning a bit. Machines with similar pattern selectors are Studio…