Identifier: cyclopediaoftext05amer (find matches)
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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163 148 KNITTING resembling the operation of the spring needle frame in forming itsstitches. This feature admits of using a large range in size of yarnon the same gauge machine, though cylinders and needle plates ofdifferent gauges may be used in the same machine.
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Fig. 85. Needle Plate. Shogged or Racked Stitches. Among the other notable featuresof this machine, is the shogged or racked stitch, which forms themuch desired edge for sweaters (Figs. 86 and 87) and other knittedgarments. These stitches are made after knitting the body with thehalf cardigan, or royal fancy, the plain rib, or other stitches, as the 164 KNITTING 149 character or style of the garment may require. The shogged edgesare formed automatically for any desired length at predeterminedintervals, or may be made in a continuous, automatically racked web. If it is desired to produce a fabric with equal intervals of shoggedand plain stitches, or other stitches alternating, or a racked, or shoggedportion of fabric to form the bottom of the garment, the machine canbe regulated, by means of the pattern chain, to effect such resultautomatically. Plated Goods. . Another feature, is in knitting plated goods, i. e.,both sides of wool yarn, with cotton yarn between. This, of course,can be

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