Welcome to Machine Knitting Central.
A Digital Rescue Mission for an Endangered Craft
Brought to you by North End Farm CIC (a UK non-profit), this archive is a labour of love dedicated to preserving the vital heritage, knowledge, and historical publications of machine knitting.
We believe a community resource should be driven by the community. You will never see ads or sponsorships here. Instead, this massive, ad-free library relies entirely on the generosity of the machine knitting community to cover its hefty hosting costs. In short: this site will stay online for exactly as long as the community continues to fund it.
It has been a long, unpaid slog to build, and it remains a work in progress! Please drop us a line with your feedback, and if you find this archive useful, we hope you will consider making a donation to help us keep the clack of the carriage alive.
Search a machine however you please, see what accessories fit, download the manuals, find the design resources & even find some machine specific youtube lessons, it’s all here.
Our learning section will introduce you to all the Queens & Kings of the machine knitting community, it contains the best youtube channels, the greatest facebook groups and details of paid online and face to face learning resources.
We have a huge collection of machine knitting pattern magazines and books that are free to download we go back as far as the 1950’s up until the 1990’s.
If you would prefer to browse through our large collection of manuals and user guides rather than use the database feel free to have look through what we have.
Looking for some punchcards? Missing the Mylar sheets for your knitradar? Want to grab some designaknit files? You can find all those goodies plus a whole heap of stitch pattern books here.
This section contains all the little gems of machine knitting from AYAB (don’t worry we’ll explain), the amazing online punchcard creator and more.
If you are looking for a spare part, a repair or service this section contains both UK & EU suppliers.
Machine knitting is an endangered craft (and don’t we all know it trying to work backwards to the 1990’s!) but it was once a staple craft in our society. Find out more here.
This website has without doubt been created on the shoulders of giants. This section gives you a list of other wonderful resource websites to lose yourself in…
This is a voluntary made for love website, contact us here with feedback and changes we need to make but please remember we might not answer straight away.
Our mission is to preserve & archive the social history, key publications and intangible heritage of British Machine Knitting for future generations.
Every contribution you make keeps this site running, on the off chance it makes more than it costs, here’s where it goes…..