Knitting Machines

Our socks are knitted by hand on original Circular Sock knitting machines.

Sock Knitting Machines or more correctly Cylinder Knitting Machines were mechanically very simple (far more so than sewing machines), but they could be difficult to use and consequently most machines that are found are either very heavily worn or almost like new.

These machines were capable of producing a wide range of goods and not just socks. The Companies that supplied the machines would often buy the items produced on the machine provided they were of sufficient quality. The heyday for the Cylinder Knitting Machine seems to have been the First World War when millions of socks had to be produced.