Turns out the contraption is a circular sock knitting machine, and that's what Wenzel is producing. "I knit probably 100 socks a year on it, mostly a wool blend with nylon, sometimes a cotton blend.

OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- The first time our paths crossed, Mike Bronkema was sporting an Olive Township Fire Rescue T-shirt and knitting a pink sock on a hand-crank antique circular sock knitting machine.

The sock knitting machine is a simple device, albeit one that takes up most of the build area on a common 3D printer. It’s properly known as a circular sock machine, and is capable of producing ...

More than a sock maker, Campbell, 66, is an avid collector and restorer of circular sock-knitting machines, which were manufactured in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She is also becoming an ...

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The machine behind the man credited with helping start the Industrial Revolution returns to a Derbyshire town. The Framework ...

It’s episode 253 of a production that began 11 years ago when a local machinist, the late Pee Wee Erlbacher, reverse-engineered an antique circular sock knitting machine from the early 20th Century.

RACINE — Forty-five people from seven states gathered last week at First United Methodist Church to knit as part of the first Antique Circular Sock Machine Conference in Southeast Wisconsin.

A large circular knitting machine is a mechanical device deployed in the textile industry to produce knitted fabrics on a large scale. The device comprises of a circular frame with numerous ...