Description
The stocking frame was one of the first technological developments in the textile industries, dating from the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. It was probably invented in the East Midlands, but certainly knitted garments became one of the main products of the region from the seventeenth century onwards. The frame was intended for use in the home and the whole family was involved, the men working the frame while their wives and children wound bobbins and seamed stockings. This book explains how the stocking frame worked, describes the lives of the knitters and illustrates the kinds of buildings in which knitting was done. Marilyn Palmer has lived in the East Midlands since 1965. She has always had an absorbing interest in survivals from the industrial past and is now Professor of Industrial Archaeology at the University of Leicester.
