Crane's warp-knitting frame
Telar de punto de urdimbre de Crane
- Date
- 1769 · confidence medium
- Place
- Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Edward Crane, Nottingham hosier
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A frame that interlocks loops along the warp threads vertically, so the fabric does not easily unravel. It opened mechanical manufacture of stable knitted fabrics such as laces, nets and lingerie.
Crane received the patent in 1769, and mechanical tricot and raschel machines appear in the 19th century; Crane's authorship is generally accepted, though warp machines were perfected in the following decades.
What it led to
- Nottingham knitted laces and nets
- present-day warp-knitted fabrics (tricot, raschel) and lingerie
- silk and nylon hosiery industry