Category: Punchcards
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Brother KH800 knitting machine
Brother KH800 was manufactured in 1971. It is a standard (4.5 mm between the needles) gauge knitting machine with 200 needles. It comes in a unique bright emerald-green color and has a wide bed, which makes this machine heavier than usual. The standard setup should come with two screw-on handles: one for the main carriage…
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Brother KH820 knitting machine
Brother KH820 knitting machine appeared on the market in 1974. It is a standard-gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine with 200 needles. It is the one of the first punch-card machines with this more modern design (maybe the second one, after Brother KH810). The same basic design was used on all consequent punchcard-capable knitting machines. Its…
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Toyota Elena Auto 7
Below are the pictures of the machine I recently purchased. Toyota Elena Auto 7 knitting machine is a standard-gauge setup equipped with a punchcard reading mechanism and needle selection. There is such sparse information on this machine on the Internet so I am eager to learn and expand my knowledge on it. Stay tuned!! It…
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PS-150 punchcard needle selector
PS-150 needle selector was invented to work with bulky Singer/Silver Reed/Studio knitting machines capable of only manual stitch manipulations. Basically, it works like a punchcard-reading mechanism but not quite automatically. A special ruler is inserted into the slot, in which one row of the punchcard pattern is visible. The pins on the ruler are pushed…
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KnitKing KH830 knitting machine
KnitKing KH830 knitting machine is another brand name for the Japanese knitting machine manufactured and released to the market by Brother Co. It is also known as Brother KH830 and, with the exception of the branding, is identical to it. Thus, read all the details of Brother KH830 in a separate blog entry.
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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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Singer MemoMatic 328 knitting machine
The Singer MemoMatic 328 knitting machine was released to the market in 1978. It is a standard-gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine with 200 needles. I have not had a chance to work with this machine yet so the pictures below were provided by someone else and published here with permission. The machine is almost identical…
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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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Singer MemoMatic 321 knitting machine
The Singer MemoMatic 321 knitting machine appeared on the market in 1972. It is a standard-gauge knitting machine (which means the needles are 4.5 mm apart) with 200 needles. It can come under other brand names, like Studio and/or Silver Reed. It features a flat metal bed with 200 needles, located 4.5 mm apart, which…
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Studio mod. 326 knitting machine
Studio mod. 326 knitting machine appeared on the market in 1976. It sometimes comes under different names, like Singer, Silver and/or Silver Reed. Its slightly younger sister, Studio mod. 327, looks identical, except for the color combination. It features a flat metal bed with 200 needles, located 4.5 mm apart, which makes this machine standard-gauge.…