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Passap history
In the past, knitting had traditionally been a women's job and men had the leisure - as they did not knit - to invent a machine to do the job. Already in 1589 the Rev. William -
Machine Knitting Wiki
This is a community site to share information about all things machine knitting. Get your machine out from under the bed and get knitting! This wiki is currently being moved from another site. Hopefully we -
Passap Duomatic 80
The Passap Duomatic 80 is a true double bed machine. Patterning is accomplished indirectly on the needles by the use of pusher which operate on the needles. The pushers can be set manually or by -
Knitting machine manufacturers
Brand names may differ in your country. See the AKA list if you are lost! The Creation Group Corp is a Chinese company which manufactures Brother and Singer clone machines marketed under the'Creative' brand -
Brother KH950i
The Brother 950i is an electronic machine with built-in patterns. The "i" indicates it has a connector that can interface with a PPD or computer. The KH950 is an identical machine but does not -
Brother KH260
The KH260 is a 9mm gauge punchcard machine. The carriage can perform tuck, slip, fairisle and punch lace (fairisle button is split for dual function). The carriage also has a motif setting and the machine -
Brother KH881
The Brother KH881 is a punchcard machine with built-in half scale knitleader. It can do fairisle and single motif knitting because it has KC1 and KC2 positions, which control end needle selection. It was -
Brother KH230
The KH230 is a 9mm gauge manual machine. The carriage can perform slip and intarsia. Unlike most Brother machines, it is possible to hold left and/or hold right on this machine. Specifications[] Single bed -
Brother main
The Brother brand started in Japan as the Nippon Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co, which manufactured and exported sewing machines from Japan soon after WWII. The company diversified into home electronics and knitting machines in the -
Brother KH710
Specifications[] Single bed knitting machine, Standard 4.5mm needle gauge, 8st semi-automatic pushbutton patterning, Can produce an incredible variety stitches, including tuck, slip, and fairisle, Metal bed, 200 needles Interesting features[] This machine has -
Brother KH891
Specifications[] Single bed knitting machine, Standard 4.5mm needle gauge, 24st punchcard patterning, Built-in half scale knitleader, Can produce an incredible variety stitches, including tuck, slip, fairisle, lace, fine lace, plating, single motif, Metal -
Brother KH890
Specifications[] Single bed knitting machine, Standard 4.5mm needle gauge, 24st punchcard patterning, Can produce an incredible variety stitches, including tuck, slip, fairisle, lace, fine lace, plating, single motif, Metal bed, 200 needles Recommended yarn -
Passap main
The Passap (PAtent Schnell Strick Aparat) knitting machine company was first founded in 1939 as the Luchsinger trading company in Dietikon, Switzerland. The first knitting machine was made of wood and had hooked pins and -
Brother KH836
The Brother KH-836 is a 4.5mm gauge knitting machine. It has standard tuck, slip, knitweave and fair-isle functions. It has a lace carriage (later sold separately). It is almost identical to the -
Brother KR850
This is the standard gauge ribber. It goes with most 800 and 900 series knitting machines. It can do slip and tuck, and using the lili buttons (small round white knobs, one either side) it -
Passap E6000
The Passap E6000 was made by the MADAG company in Switzerland. It is a 5mm electronic double-bed machine. Front lock -
Silver SK840
The Silver SK840 is a modular 4.5mm electronic knitting machine. The carriage can perform many functions, and is connected to the electronics by a curly cord. It can be connected to an EC1 (mylar -
Silver SK860
This is a mid-gauge (6.5mm) machine with 150 needles. The patterning system is electronic, via a curly cord connected to the carriage. Patterning can be connected to an EC1, EC1+PE1 or PE10 -
Silver SK321
This machine was developed by the then Kashiwazaki Silver Seiko Ltd (now Silver Reed) in Niigata Japan. In 1972 it was exhibited at The Science Museum in the United Kingdom where it was awarded the -
Comparisons main
Note that this is not a definitive chart and is only intended to provide approximate equivalents between different machine brands. As such, they should only be used as a starting point. -
Artisan 70D
Main bed Ribber -
Silver SK700
4.5mm (standard gauge) 24st punchcard machine with built-in knitcontour device. Also known as Studio in certain countries. Specifications[] 24st punchcard, built-in knitcontour -
Dubied hand flat
An industrial hand-flat is a hand operated industrial knitting machine with a flat bed (as opposed to a circular bed). The Swiss company Dubied produced hand-flats in a variety of gauges from 14 -
Silver F370K
The Silver F370K machine is a fine gauge (3.6mm) knitting machine. It has a 30 st punchcard patterning system and a built-in knit leader. Specifications[] Single Bed Knitting Machine, Fine 3.6mm Needle -
Toyota KS858
Main carriage Lace carriage and punchcard mechanism
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