it easier for her he made the machine. His design based on an early form of knitting that used hooked needles mounted side by side on a frame, allowed an operator to form an entire row of loops with a single stroke of a foot pedal. This was the beginning of the English cloth industry and was at first used extensively for stockings. Knitting was extremely labor intensive and generally replaced by machine knitting.
             It remained essentially unaltered until
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