Charnos Prject(Year3 live prject)--A overview of Hosiery History

Historical overview:

 

• 1560 - Queen Elisabeth owns the first pair of silk stockings (England)

 

 

 

• 1589 - Frame-work knitting machine invented by Rev. William Lee

• 1816 - First Circular Knitting-Frame (England)

 

• 1838 - Steam Power-driven Hosiery Machine (USA)
• 1839 - Patent for Power-driven Circular Knitting Machine (USA)
•  1850 - US Patent for Latch Needles
•  1857 - Patent for Full-Fashioned Machine (England)
•  1937 - Nylon invented by Dr. Wallace Carothers at DuPont

(Many Italian, Austrian, and German skilled weavers were employed in the late nineteenth century; at the time silk mills were at their heights of production, but were largely replaced by nylon and rayon fabrics during the 1930s and ’40s. June 1937. )

• 1959 - Development of Spandex

                                       （Spandex fabrics samples）