Electric sock knitting machines

You are looking for a professional machine. If you belong to an alpaca growing group of some sort, I would ask there what other alpaca growers are using. I have a friend who runs a small fiber mill for spinners and knitters, she may know where to go, I will ask her. Stand by

Els

Teresa

There are a multitude of industrial sock knitting machines listed on the internet. Most of these come from India, and China. I would go to your local library and look in one of the trade directories. There may be secondhand ones available. So many of our textile factories in the USA as well as in Canada or now closing, because labor is cheaper in third world countries and all this industry is going off shore. Lots of cheap machinere for sale. Believe me, often it goes to the dump, or a recycle place. My husband used to be in the machinery moving business.

Els

On 16 Apr 2006 19:23:00 -0700, "Teresa" spewed forth :

I make socks on an antique Legare47 sock machine. They look plenty professional and take about 30 minutes per pair to crank and graft.

A commercial electronic sock machine will likely require yarn finer than you can spin yourself in quantity or than most mills can or are willing to spin. One turns up occasionally on Ebay in the several thousands of dollars price range. New units can cost a few tens of thousands.

If you'll google "used textile equipment" you should find plenty of machines.

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