the knitting industry

At the start of the 1900s the knitting industry needed a bigger factory and had to move to a location outside Bergen.

"Well, when I was out with the girls I didn't spend all the time telling 'em about the strike in the knitting industry!"

The Knitting Industries' Federation continues to be based in Leicestershire.

In 1940, Golaski developed a process for rebuilding hosiery machines to enable the knitting industry to make the switch from silk to nylon.

Around 1700, the knitting industry began to grow, so that finally, at the end of the 19th century, Apolda was the wealthiest town of the whole region.

With the advent of the machine-knitted guernsey and the decline in the knitting industry, this guernsey is a much rarer sight.

Driven from his home county by the opposition of cotton workers to any machinery that seemed to threaten their livelihoods, Arkwright went to Nottingham and, in partnership with Jedediah Strutt, set up a factory to produce yarn for the knitting industry.

Camp Stitches, a knitter's paradise coming in June in Silver Bay, N.Y., started off as classes given at trade shows, said Ted Anderson, the marketing director of XRX, the publisher of books and magazines for the knitting industry.