Kim Williams uses an Erlbacher knitting machine to knit a sock. It took more than a year and $35,000 to "reverse engineer" the Gearhart unit.

3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds of nifty little mechanisms, tho… ...

Guelph couple Bill and Rose Graham have a restored, vintage sock-making machine that was used to supply socks to soldiers on the front lines during the Great Wars.

Signs will lead visitors to each studio. Anderson, who uses a 1920s-era sock-making machine to create colorful, durable socks, said he loves to use the art tour as a way to share his work with others.

A circular sock machine works by using latch-hook needles to form the stitches, and you do a surprising amount of manual manipulation of the needles in order to make the toes, heels, and hems of ...