The economics of artists''labour markets

This disclosure relates to a knitting machine which includes a needle bed having a plurality of needles mounted thereon in side-by-side relation. Also mounted on the needle bed for traversing movement is a carriage. The carriage is provided with a pair of mechanical data storage dials one of which has needle setting arms thereof set in accordance with the pattern of a data carrier and the other of which has the arms thereof already set with the arms set in needles as the carriage traverses the needle bed. The data carrier may either be in the form of a preprinted program sheet or a base sheet adapted to have placed thereon by the individual the desired pattern data.