Illustrated instruction book for the Bickford family knitting machine
An 1873 illustrated instruction book from New York, published by D. Bickford and credited to Dana Bickford, explaining the Bickford family knitting machine for home users. The plates show finished knitted garments such as a striped glove with a ribbed cuff and a striped knitted vest, alongside close views of stitch structure and a needle working a row of loops. A designer could take the crisp stitch textures, the diagonal striping, and the hexagonal lattice pattern as knit-texture references.
