The title of this booklet is Do You Know that the Gearhart Hand-Knitting Machine Will Knit More Than One Hundred Different Articles?. To me, it is quite remarkable that the machine could knit an entire sweater; but then, as I think about it, the arms are just a long sock without the heel. and the flat parts are just more long socks which have been separated length-wise, and then stitched together.
The list goes on and on, complete with illustrations. Below is just the sock list. This list comprizes the front section of the booklet. The back section has all the “other” things.
Publish under the label of the Clearfield Knitting Machine Company, this booket came along pretty late in the company’s life. It would have been interesting to see how things might have proceeded if the company had emphasized all the “other” things that could be made with the machine. If I were a prolific knitter back then, or a sponsor to a small army of knitters, I’d be inclined to open up a retail store in some city along the lines of the custom tailor shops we see today.
Here is the lead-in for the booklet:
New and Proved Plan for Big Home Earnings
This booklet illustrates more than one hundred different types of knitting and almost as many different kinds of articles easily made on the marvelous Gearhart Hand Knitting Machine.
Every sort of knitting which used to be done in the old fashioned way with straight knitting needles, is now being done a hundred times faster by the Gearhart Hand Knitter. Not only faster but far more accurately and with a finer finish. The machine is a mechanical marvel – one of the really important labor-saving inventions of the later part of the last century.
It is simple to operate – easy to learn by following the latest and improved Instruction Book. In fact, there is every reason why anyone should quickly learn to produce any type of knitting on it.
11/04/10 at 2:17 am
What a wonderful acquisition! Just the sort of manual to study through the winter evenings. Are there any copies available?
12/26/10 at 10:57 pm
I am also interested in a copy of the Gearhart manual of sock knitting published by Clearfield Knitting Machine Company. Were you able to find a copy?
12/27/10 at 2:18 pm
Hi Phoebe and Karen. I scanned in the entire booklet and published it under the postings for October 10th, 2010 and November 8th 2010. Karen, the manual is not an instruction manual. Its a booklet describing different things that can be knit using the machine. I have many instruction manuals from different years. What are you referring to?
08/23/11 at 3:32 am
I am new to circular sock machine knitting. I have researched all the different machines and have decided to purchase a Gearhart brand CSM. I need to know ALL of the different models that were made so that I can decide which model to choose. I would appreciate it if you could send me an email of all of the manuals that go with all of the Gearhart models that were made. I want to read through them and use the manuals as a criteria to make my final decision. Also, if yu know of anyone that is selling a Gearhart machine, I am interested. Also, any info or additional literature, sales or instructional, would be great. Claire
09/08/11 at 3:15 pm
I’ve found my way into the archives and managed to view about 50 of the ideas for knitting but couldn’t find any more pages. Have they now been removed?
I wonder if you have a baby leggings pattern, free or for sale. I’d like to give them a go once I get back on the machine. I have a LeGare but any pattern will help. thanks.