Machines

Domestic Knitting Machines

These are machines intended for home use. Note: this should include the semi industrial Passaps and Brother ck-35

Manufacturers

Domestic & Hobbyist

• Brother (Includes KnitKing, Jones, and Defendi rebrands)

• Singer/Silver Reed (Includes Knitmaster, Studio, Empisal, and Seiko)

• Passap (Also sold as Pfaff in some markets)

• Toyota (Also sold as Elna or Elena)

• Bond (Mostly plastic-bed mid-gauge machines; known as the "Incredible Sweater Machine")

• Knittax (Early German-engineered manual and punchcard machines)

• Superba (French-made machines often branded as Singer, White, or Phildar)

• Corona (Japanese manufacturer of both standard and bulky machines)

• Juki (Japanese manufacturer known for unique early manual models)

• Artisan / Taitexma / Creative (Modern Chinese manufacturers producing clones of vintage Brother and Silver Reed models)

Hand-Crank & Circular Sock Machines (CSM)

• Lamb (Famous for the Lamb LT 150 and early Lamb Tuttle models)

• Erlbacher (Modern manufacturer of Gearhart-style circular sock machines)

• Addi / Sentro (Modern plastic circular machines for hobbyists)

Professional & Industrial

• Dubied (Swiss V-bed machines; models include the Dubied NH, Dubied MR, and Dubied MM)

• Shima Seiki (The Japanese leader in modern computerized "WholeGarment" knitting)

• Stoll (German industrial flat-bed leader, now part of the Karl Mayer Group)

• Kniterate (Digital "desktop" industrial knitting machine for small studios)

• Monarch / Fukuhara (Leaders in large-diameter circular knitting machines)

• Mayer & Cie. (German circular knitting manufacturer)

• Santoni (Italian leader in seamless "circular" garment technology)

Brands

These are brands that machines were sold under in various parts of the world.

• Knit King

Industrial Knitting Machines

This might just need to link out to the computational knitting wiki

Machine Table

Below is a sortable list of all knitting machines currently in the database:

Manufacturer	ModelName	Gauge	Type	Needles	ReleaseYear	Aliases
Brother	KH 210	Bulky	Domestic	110	1,970	Brother Chunky Manual
Brother	KH 230	Bulky	Domestic	110	1,982	Brother Bulky 9
Brother	KH 341	Standard	Domestic	200	1,980	Brother Foldaway
Brother	KH 400	Standard	Domestic	200	1,988	Brother Convertible
Brother	KH 552	Standard	Domestic	200	1,968	Jones KH 552
Brother	KH-800	Standard	Domestic	200	1,971	Jones KH-800
Brother	KH-801	Standard	Domestic	200	1,973	Jones KH-801
Brother	KH-810	Standard	Domestic	200	1,975	Jones KH-810
Brother	KH-881	Standard	Domestic	200	1,983	KnitKing SS-881 • Jones KH-881
Brother	KX 350	Mid	Domestic	132	1,985	Brother Home Knitter
Dubied	JET 2	Variable (5-cut to 12-cut)	Electronic Flat Machine		1,978	Dubied JET
Dubied	MM	Variable (5-cut to 14-cut)	V-Bed Industrial		1,930	Dubied Master
Dubied	MR	Variable (5-cut to 14-cut)	V-Bed Industrial		1,940	Dubied Moderne
Dubied	NH	Variable (5-cut to 14-cut)	V-Bed Industrial		1,920	Dubied Normal
Lamb	Class 1	Variable (typically 5 to 9)	V-Bed Flat		1,867	Original Lamb • Lamb V-Bed
Lamb	LT 150	Variable (Cylinder dependent)	Circular Sock Machine		2,017	Modern Tuttle
Silver Reed	SK 210	Standard (4.5mm)	Metal Bed Manual	200		Singer 210 • Studio 210