Enterprise and Innovation 1750-1810
Various objects from this early period of the knitwear industry.
The industry started coming into it's own with new inventions bringing the price of garments down to a price affordable to the wider public.
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White silk square net.
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Socks made to cover just the feet.
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Probably a woman's stocking knitted on the stocking frame.
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Pair of small red silk stockings, possibly for a girl.
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Pale lilac silk stocking made for Daniel Lambert of Leicester.
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Lace made on a stocking frame.
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Pair of stockings knitted in white cotton on the stocking frame.
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Embroidered by machine to imitate handmade lace.
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One of the claimants for the earliest surviving piece of machine-made lace.
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Made for weighing socks.
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Used on stocking frames.
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A three needle silk knitting frame.
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