Two knittersmay come in with two shawls made of the same material and the same size and yet the one will be 25 per cent.
Knitters who sell their goods to the shopkeepers have not always an account in their books; perhaps, indeed, it may be said that, in a majority of cases in Lerwick, they have not.
Cotton and drapery goods are also sold or exchanged by knitters in order to get provisions or wool, and sometimes at a considerable loss.
But there is a general concurrence of testimony to the effect that goods got by knitters at the hosiery shops are dearer than at other shops in Shetland.
I knew they were from parties who had been knitters to Mr. Linklater and other merchants.
Did you not make a living sometimes by getting goods from knitters and selling them again in the country?
You have said that the footing on which you settle with your knitters and with those who sell to you is, that the bargain between you is that they are to take goods?
Do you know that other knittershave to do the same thing?
But the nominal price paid to the knitters would in that case be less?
Some knitters say that the price is low enough, even if it were paid in cash, and conclude, perhaps illogically, that they are therefore better to take the goods.
Sometimes some of the wool is sold to grocers in town who don't deal in shawls, and the knitters buy it from them.
The knitters sat silent a little time, perhaps reflecting upon the thoughts which the mention of the last rites for the dead called up in their minds.
The stocking frame-knitters guild, which had been chartered in 1663, went on strike to protest the use of workhouse children as an abuse of apprenticeship which lowered their wages.
The stocking-knitters destroyed stocking-knitting frames so that the number of apprentices who could be employed would not reach the limit specified by its guild's regulations.
Illustration] Toy Knitters Toy knitters are made of a cylindrical piece of wood two and one-half or three inches long and at least one inch in diameter.
A number of forms of web can be made, but the simplest and quickest are those made on the knitters having but two posts.
The four-post knittersare also simple and are used where a thick cord is needed.
Spools are used to advantage where knitters cannot be obtained.
Except otherwise specified two-post knitters are used for these models.
The frame-work knitters were incorporated under Charles II.
The spinsters and theknitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones.
Under the administration of Cromwell, the stocking-knitters of London presented a petition, in which they requested permission to establish a guild.
In Germany, as far as I know at present, stocking-knitters occur for the first time about the middle of the sixteenth century, under the name of hosenstricker, a term which in Lower Saxony is still not uncommon.
In Berlin there were stocking-knitters about the year 1590.
In the petition of the stocking-knitters it is stated, that the loom, at that time, had been found out about fifty years.
As to the address by the frame-work knitters of Nottingham, the author says that he himself investigated conditions and had come to the conclusion that the declarations of the workers 'were not in the slightest degree exaggerated'.
When the frame-work knitters of silk stockings petitioned Oliver Cromwell for a charter, they said, "the Englishman buys silk of the stranger for twenty marks, and sells him the same again for one hundred pounds.
These are again weighed, and the knitters receive their pay according to the weight, quality, and size of the goods.
On the following Wednesday the knitters reappear, each with her bale of stockings or socks.
It was the complaint of the cloistered love-birds which these knitters sang.
The songs are, indeed, purely materialistic and do not attempt (how should the spinsters and the knitters in the sun attempt it?
Now it is extremely significant that almost all the popular songs about nuns, the songs which The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant, are upon one theme.
The spinners, weavers, and knitters made all the coarse cloths and stockings used by the negroes, and some of fine texture worn by the white family, nearly all worn by the children of it.
Some framework stocking knitterspaid frame rent for the use of their knitting frames.
In Leicestershire theknitters had no such alternative.
The town knitters either work in their own homes or in shops with standings for perhaps as many as fifty frames.
Direct employment would not have meant a change to another class of work (this is what direct employment meant for knitters and hand-loom weavers).
Thinking to improve it, he went on the same errand into the country, but found the frame-work knitters there in a still more deplorable state.
Some of the knitters pawn their blankets for the day, and most lodge their Sunday clothing during the week.
Another instance was destroying stocking-knitting frames so not too many apprentices could be employed contrary to the regulations of the stocking knitters guild.
Some frame-work stocking knitters paid frame rent for the use of their knitting frames.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knitters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
