The "Shaker Sock" :a New Hampshire contribution to nineteenth-century machine knitting: Historical New Hampshire / Richard M. Candee.
- Title:
- The "Shaker Sock" :a New Hampshire contribution to nineteenth-century machine knitting: Historical New Hampshire / Richard M. Candee.
- Author:
- Candee, Richard M., 1942-
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1997.
- Physical Description:
- p. [60] - 77.
- Source:
- Vol. 52, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1997) Historical New Hampshire.
- Description:
- The "Shaker sock" combined 19th-century factory production of socks with domestic hand finishing. New Hampshire's Shaker communities began using machines to produce the tubular part of socks by the 1850's, and added heels and toes by hand. By 1880 home-knitting equipment could produce a fully machine-made "Shaker sock." By 1890, many companies were producing socks with the Shaker name, but they had nothing to do with the Shakers.
- Language:
- English.
- Subjects:
- Knitting machines. , Machine knitting. , Textile machinery.
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