circular knitting machine Textile industry

Mayer Circular Knitting Machine

Maschinenfabrik Mayer & Cie. Tailfingen, Germany
Machinenumber/Model: 4062

Circular knitting machine that works with electricity and produces rib knit fabric. 12 reels feed the yarn to the rotating cylinder that has 2x720 needles bedded in it. Machine produces 12 kilograms of tubular knitted fabric during 8 hour period. The machine is owned by textile company Tam-Silk oy in Finland in Kangasala. The company has used this machine approximately since 1965.

Max. db 70,9

Sound recordist: Leena Suutala
Photographer: Leena Ahonen
Video recordist: Katri Takaveräjä
Video editor: Darran Mattila

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1960s
40.7 MB
1 min 10 s
2 (Stereo)
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Bit depth:
Level:
96 kHz
4611 kb/s
32 bit
71 dB

Recorded on March 4, 2015
Knitting Factory
Kangasala, FINLAND
Creative Commons License

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