Welcome to Machine Knitting Central.
Machine Knitting Central brings everything you need for machine knitting together in one place — machines and accessories, manuals, magazines and pattern books, lessons, design resources and more. Whether you're trying to identify an old machine, find a missing manual or disappear down a rabbit hole of vintage patterns, this is the place to start.
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, going back as far as the 1950s through to the 1990s.
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…