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Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American School (Lansing, Ill.)
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile industry
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Fig, 132. Setting Up Work. dies down, and knit round and round for the hand forty or fifty rounds.Close off as in the toe of the stocking. While knitting the thumb holddown the strip with the left hand or heel hook (B in Fig. 114). To Close a Selvedge. Take up the short stitch with a darningneedle on each edge on the wrong side of the fabric, and sew over as inover-seaming. Every other stitch on the selvedge is a short stitch andis referred to as the selvedge stitch. iVlending Broken Stitches. Take one of the needles of the ma- 318
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KNITTING 201 yy/y. 1 1 (r^ m i w Fig. 123.Crossing of Yarn. chine and hook it in the dropped stitch, either when the work is in themachine or after taking it out, and push it far enough through to bringthe stitch below the latch. Continue to draw the needle back until anew stitch is formed, and continue in the same way until all the drop-ped stitches are knit in. If the mending isdone out of the machine, tie the dropped stitchwith a short piece of yarn and draw the endsinside of the web. To Take Out Needles. Lift them as high asthey will raise up and then turn the tops out-ward and downward until they come out fromunder the wire ring in the needle cylinder. Toput them in, press the end of the hub of theneedle down behind the wire ring until it is fullydown behind it, turn the needle up to the cyl-inder and push it down as far as it will go.Several needles can be taken out at one time as easily as one. When the needles are raised up out of the cam cylinder againstthe wire ring in the c

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