In happier news, my wife bought the most fascinating machine. It knits yarn into a continuous tube. I think I lost an hour to watching it run this morning.

@jerry The fun thing is you can scale this machine up to any size.

Now the question is for you – to ponder while watching your machine run for a couple more hours – what is the minimum number of hooks?

Here’s a photo of a larger version in the fantastic TextielMuseum in Tilburg, NL

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Yes. Clothes where there is no vertical seam, like socks and (some) t-shirts, are made this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98EgZy9bYuk

Mayer & Cie. SF4 3.2 III 3-thread fleece circular knitting machine

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