Useful Website Links

• A Virtual Hosiery Museum
  Detailed drawings of the Hosiery Museum planned for Southern Germany.
• Brief history of hosiery through the ages
  produced by Rachel Brendle of the Hosiery Technology Center, N Carolina, for the 1998 International Hosiery Exhibition
• British Association of Friends of Museums
  The website for all those associated with museums, as friends or volunteers.
• Busy Bee Basics
  Lots of info for machne knitters. Patterns, yarns etc.
• Calverton - A Nottinghamshire village and its people
  The village where Rev William Lee lived.
• Country Rain
  Selling antique sock machines, accessories etc. Central Indiana USA.
• Erica Thomson
  Erica Thomson is a machine knitter who lectures and demonstrates in the UK. She has a number of publications to her name.
• Jo Newton - knitting designer
  Illustrated on-line catalogue of all her realistic animal and action motif designs for machine and hand knitters
• Knitters Edge
  The ultimate machine knitting resource. Based in Mexico
• Knitting & Crochet Guild
  Preserving the old while exploring the new
• Knitting in Ipswich Massachusetts
  A stocking machine was smuggled from England and arrived in 1822.
• Knitting Together
  The Heritage of the East Midlands Knitting Industry.
• Machine Knit
  Your On-Line Machine Knitting Resource
• Machine Knitting Downunder
  A link to many knitting websites in Australia
• Machine Knitting Monthly
  UK knitting magazine
• Old Tyme Stockings
  Devoted to Sock Machines and Sock Machine Knitters
• Samuel Slater - Hero or Traitor?
  The story of a film which recreates 18th century Derbyshire in the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
• The Knit Tree
  Knitting History from Hand Knitting to Knitting Machines by Sharon Nani
• The Knitting Guild Association
  An American non-profit organisation dedicated solely to knitters and knitting.
• The Machine Knitters Association of Victoria Inc.
  Australian association of machine knitters.
• The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters
  The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters, one of the City of London Livery Companies, was first incorporated in 1657 by Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
• Woodborough's Heritage
  Many aspects of life in Woodborough, including an article on Frame Knitting.