knifefish, any of certain New World fishes of the suborder Gymnotoidei, order Gymnotiformes. Knifefishes comprise, at most, about 50 species of Central and South American fishes found in quiet lakes and lagoons. They are placed in three families: Gymnotidae (often called gymnotid “eels”);

Knife in the Water, Polish psychological thriller film, released in 1962, that was director Roman Polanski’s acclaimed first feature-length movie; it was also the first Polish movie to be nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Knife in the Water features only three

Seine Series: …may be equivalent to the Knife Lake Series; if so, the term Knife Lake Series would have priority over Seine Series.

agricultural technology: Primary tillage equipment: The rotary plow’s essential feature is a set of knives or tines rotated on a shaft by a power source. The knives chop the soil up and throw it against a hood that covers the knife set. These machines can create good seedbeds, but their high…

Salman Rushdie: 2022 attempt on life: In 2024 Rushdie released Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a memoir of the attack and his subsequent recovery. The following year his assailant was found guilty of attempted murder; Rushdie testified at the trial.

notopterid, any of about eight species of air-breathing, freshwater fishes constituting the family Notopteridae, found in quiet waters from Africa to Southeast Asia. Notopterids are long-bodied, small-scaled fishes with a small dorsal fin (if present) and a long, narrow anal fin that runs along

knifefish, any of certain New World fishes of the suborder Gymnotoidei, order Gymnotiformes. Knifefishes comprise, at most, about 50 species of Central and South American fishes found in quiet lakes and lagoons. They are placed in three families: Gymnotidae (often called gymnotid “eels”);

perciform: Annotated classification: Family Oplegnathidae (knifejaws) Pliocene to present. Strongly resemble Scorpidae and Kyphosidae, but incisiform teeth of young become fused in adult to form a parrotlike beak to upper and lower jaws; these fishes are not related to true parrot fishes (Scaridae); several species of shorefishes mostly in tropics…

Adolf Franz Friedrich, Freiherr von Knigge was a German writer, best-known for his work Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788; “On Social Intercourse with People”), a practical guide to happiness and success, written in a pleasant and easy style. Belonging to a bankrupt family of the landed

knight, now a title of honour bestowed for a variety of services, as in the British system of nobility and peerage, but originally in the European Middle Ages a formally professed cavalryman. The first medieval knights were professional cavalry warriors, some of whom were vassals holding lands as

chess: Knight: Each player has two knights, and they begin the game on the squares between their rooks and bishops—i.e., at b1 and g1 for White and b8 and g8 for Black. The knight has the trickiest move, an L-shape of two steps: either two squares…

Tom Cruise: Later career: …starred in the action thrillers Knight and Day (2010) and Jack Reacher (2012). In the latter he played a former U.S. Army investigator, a role he reprised in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). After appearing as a 1980s rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012), he was…

knight bachelor, most ancient, albeit lower ranking, form of English knighthood, with its origin dating to the reign of Henry III in the 13th century. The feudalization of England that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066 integrated the knights, then around 5,000 in number, into the new system.

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Shota Rustaveli: …the author of Vepkhvistqaosani (The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, or The Lord of the Panther-Skin), the Georgian national epic.

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

Christian Bale: In director Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015), his existentially confused wastrel wanders Los Angeles, engaging in sexual dalliances and probing his familial relationships. Bale then played a journalist in The Promise (2016), about a love triangle during the Armenian Genocide.

Francis Beaumont: The Knight of the Burning Pestle parodies a then popular kind of play—sprawling, episodic, with sentimental lovers and chivalric adventures. It opens with The Citizen and his Wife taking their places on the stage to watch “The London Merchant”—itself a satire on the work of…

Guinevere: …charette, she was rescued by Lancelot (a character whom Chrétien had earlier named as one of Arthur’s knights) from the land of Gorre, to which she had been taken by Meleagant (a version of the story that was incorporated in the 13th-century prose Vulgate cycle). Chrétien presented her as one…

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

John S. Knight: …Ridder Newspapers group (later renamed Knight Ridder, Inc.). Other papers owned by the group include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. By the early 21st century Knight Ridder newspapers had won more than 80 Pulitzer Prizes.

knight service, in the European feudal system, military duties performed in return for tenures of land. The military service might be required for wars or expeditions or merely for riding and escorting services or guarding the castle. To obtain such service, a lord could either enfeoff (grant a

Templar, member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model and inspiration for other military orders. Originally founded to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order

Knight v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on January 22, 1968, issued a per curiam (unsigned) order affirming without explanation a lower court’s ruling that had upheld as constitutional a New York state law requiring all

Chrétien de Troyes: …wife of his overlord Arthur; Yvain, a brilliant extravaganza, combining the theme of a widow’s too hasty marriage to her husband’s slayer with that of the new husband’s fall from grace and final restoration to favour. Perceval, which Chrétien left unfinished, unites the religious theme of the Holy Grail with…

The Knight’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This chivalric romance was based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida, and though it was not originally written as part of the Canterbury collection, Chaucer adapted it to fit the character of the Knight. In the tale

Bob Knight was an American collegiate basketball coach whose 902 career National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coaching victories are among the most in men’s basketball history. Knight played basketball and football in high school, and he was a reserve on the Ohio State University national

Bob Knight was an American collegiate basketball coach whose 902 career National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coaching victories are among the most in men’s basketball history. Knight played basketball and football in high school, and he was a reserve on the Ohio State University national

history of publishing: General periodicals: …of magazine in Britain were Charles Knight, publisher for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, with his weekly Penny Magazine (1832–46) and Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–58); the Chambers brothers, William and Robert, with Chambers’s (Edinburgh) Journal (1832–1956), which reached a circulation of 90,000 in 1845; and teetotaler John Cassell,…

The Brady Bunch: …Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland); the girls, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen); and Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), the wisecracking live-in housekeeper. While the initial season’s stories sometimes touched on the difficulties of

Albrecht Dürer: Development after the second Italian trip: …of his copperplate engravings: the Knight, Death and Devil, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I—all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5 inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerning these three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, allusive, iconographic details.…

yacht: Kinds of sailboats: Knight, a barrister and journalist. A voyage around the world (1895–98) sailed single-handedly by the naturalized American captain Joshua Slocum in the 11.3-metre Spray demonstrated the seaworthiness of small craft. Thereafter in the 20th century, notably after World War II, smaller racing and recreational craft…

Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton was an American botanist known for her lasting contributions to the study of mosses. Elizabeth Knight grew up for the most part in Cuba, where her family owned a sugar plantation. She attended schools in Cuba and New York and in 1875 graduated from Normal (now

children’s literature: Contemporary times: …Lassie Come Home (1940), by Eric Knight, survived adaptation to film and television. In the convention of the talking animal, authentic work was produced by Ben Lucien Burman, with his wonderful “Catfish Bend” tales (1952–67). The American-style, wholesome, humorous family story was more than competently developed by Eleanor Estes, with…

Etheridge Knight was an African American poet who emerged as a robust voice of the Black Arts movement with his first volume of verse, Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry combined the energy and bravado of African American “toasts” (long narrative poems that were recited in a mixture of street

Frank Hyneman Knight was an American economist who is considered the main founder of the “Chicago school” of economics. Knight was educated at the University of Tennessee and at Cornell University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1916. He then taught at the University of Iowa (1919–27) and at the

Gladys Knight is an American singer and actress known as the “Empress of Soul,” who was the lead vocalist for the popular rhythm-and-blues (R&B) group Gladys Knight and the Pips. She established a successful solo career in both gospel and R&B music and also acted in films and television shows.

Gladys Knight and the Pips, American vocal group that was among the most popular rhythm-and-blues and soul groups of the 1960s and ’70s and that was unique in having a female lead singer and male backup singers. The principal members were Gladys Knight (b. May 28, 1944, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.),

Gowin Knight was an English scientist and inventor whose work in the field of magnetization led to significant improvements in the magnetic compass. In 1744 Knight exhibited powerful bar magnets before the Royal Society of London, proving that he had discovered a greatly improved method of

32 Notable Women Cricketers: Heather Knight: Heather Knight took over as captain of the England women’s team in 2016 when Charlotte Edwards retired and led the team to victory in the 2017 Women’s ODI World Cup at home. She was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year that year…

32 Notable Women Cricketers: Heather Knight: Heather Knight took over as captain of the England women’s team in 2016 when Charlotte Edwards retired and led the team to victory in the 2017 Women’s ODI World Cup at home. She was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year that year…

Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment: …the mediumship of—the school’s leader, JZ Knight. Ramtha’s school draws more than 3,000 students from more than 20 countries.

John S. Knight was a widely respected American journalist and publisher who developed Knight Newspapers, one of the major newspaper chains in the United States. Knight’s father moved to Akron, Ohio, to become advertising manager of the Akron Beacon Journal, a daily newspaper that he came to control

John S. Knight was a widely respected American journalist and publisher who developed Knight Newspapers, one of the major newspaper chains in the United States. Knight’s father moved to Akron, Ohio, to become advertising manager of the Akron Beacon Journal, a daily newspaper that he came to control

Sarah Kemble Knight was an American colonial teacher and businesswoman whose vivid and often humorous travel diary is considered one of the most authentic chronicles of 18th-century colonial life in America. Sarah Kemble was the daughter of a merchant. Sometime before 1689 she married Richard

Margaret E. Knight was a prolific American inventor of machines and mechanisms for a variety of industrial and everyday purposes. Knight demonstrated a knack for tools and invention from an early age, and she was said to have contrived a safety device for controlling shuttles in powered textile

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: She toured with gospel singer Marie Knight, whose subdued vocal approach provided an effective contrast to Tharpe’s more emotive phrasing. The duo made several successful recordings together, including “Beams of Heaven” (1947) and “He Watches Me” (1948). Their decision to release a number of straightforward blues singles backfired, however, alienating…

Marva Collins was an American educator who broke with a public school system she found to be failing inner-city children and established her own rigorous system and practice to cultivate her students’ independence and accomplishment. Marva Knight attended the Bethlehem Academy, a strict school that

Gladys Knight and the Pips: ), Merald (“Bubba”) Knight (b. September 4, 1942, Atlanta), William Guest (b. June 2, 1941, Atlanta—December 24, 2015, Detroit, Michigan), and Edward Patten (b. August 2, 1939, Atlanta—d. February 25, 2005, Livonia, Michigan).

Elizabeth Jolley was a British-born Australian novelist and short-story writer whose dryly comic work features eccentric characters and examines relationships between women. Jolley was raised in a German-speaking household in England. She moved from England to Australia in 1959, and her work often

Celia Cruz: From Havana to the United States: …the orchestra’s first trumpet player, Pedro Knight, who became her musical director and manager three years later, after she had left the group and become a solo artist. Despite recording several albums with bandleader Tito Puente, however, Cruz was slow to find a wide audience in the United States during…

Phil Knight is an American businessman who cofounded (1964) the multinational sportswear and sports equipment corporation Nike, Inc. (originally called Blue Ribbon Sports). During his tenure as CEO (1964–2004), Nike became one of the most successful companies in the world. Knight was the eldest of

Phil Knight is an American businessman who cofounded (1964) the multinational sportswear and sports equipment corporation Nike, Inc. (originally called Blue Ribbon Sports). During his tenure as CEO (1964–2004), Nike became one of the most successful companies in the world. Knight was the eldest of

Western architecture: From the 17th to the 19th century: …was evolved and publicized by Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price. Already Knight had given architectural form to his ideas of rugged, irregular, and apparently “natural” composition in Downton Castle, Herefordshire, near Ludlow (1774–78). This was the first irregularly planned castellated (castle-style) building with a Classical interior. It inspired a…

The Statesman: …was established in 1875 by Robert Knight as an outgrowth of an earlier paper, The Friend of India (founded 1817). On Knight’s death in 1890, his sons, Paul and Robert, assumed control. The Statesman soon became one of India’s leading dailies in a country where such papers wield significantly greater…

Bob Knight was an American collegiate basketball coach whose 902 career National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coaching victories are among the most in men’s basketball history. Knight played basketball and football in high school, and he was a reserve on the Ohio State University national

Sarah Kemble Knight was an American colonial teacher and businesswoman whose vivid and often humorous travel diary is considered one of the most authentic chronicles of 18th-century colonial life in America. Sarah Kemble was the daughter of a merchant. Sometime before 1689 she married Richard

Caddyshack: Plot: Smails (Ted Knight) is the club’s elitist cofounder and director of the caddie scholarship program. Meanwhile, both Noonan and Webb romantically pursue Smails’s niece Lacey Underall (Cindy Morgan).

Thomas Andrew Knight was a British horticulturalist and botanist whose experiments on the adaptive responses of plants and the changes in direction of stem and root growth were the basis of later work on geotropisms. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Knight applied scientific

Sarah Kemble Knight was an American colonial teacher and businesswoman whose vivid and often humorous travel diary is considered one of the most authentic chronicles of 18th-century colonial life in America. Sarah Kemble was the daughter of a merchant. Sometime before 1689 she married Richard

knight, now a title of honour bestowed for a variety of services, as in the British system of nobility and peerage, but originally in the European Middle Ages a formally professed cavalryman. The first medieval knights were professional cavalry warriors, some of whom were vassals holding lands as

George Knightley, fictional character, the squire who attempts to guide—and eventually proposes marriage to—Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen’s Emma

Keira Knightley is an English actress who is best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and a number of period dramas, including Pride & Prejudice (2005). Although extremely versatile, she is especially noted for portraying plucky heroines and tragic figures. Knightley is the youngest of

Keira Knightley is an English actress who is best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and a number of period dramas, including Pride & Prejudice (2005). Although extremely versatile, she is especially noted for portraying plucky heroines and tragic figures. Knightley is the youngest of

Henry Knighton was an English chronicler and an Austin (Augustinian) canon at the Abbey of St. Mary of the Meadows in Leicester. He is important for his vivid picture of the religious reformer John Wycliffe and the rise of the Lollards and for his favourable account of the generally unpopular John

George A. Romero: …onscreen appearance in Romero’s film Knightriders. The following year Romero directed King’s screenplay for Creepshow (1982). They worked together again on Creepshow 2 (1987), with Romero writing the screenplay based on King’s stories. Romero was executive producer of the television series Tales from the Darkside (1984–88), and King and Romero…

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Knights of Columbus, international fraternal benefit society of Roman Catholic men that was founded by Father Michael J. McGivney and chartered by the state of Connecticut in the United States in 1882. Besides supplying a wide range of insurance benefits and the opportunity for social networking

Knights of Labor (KOL), the first important national labour organization in the United States, founded in 1869. Named the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor by its first leader, Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations.

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Hospitallers, a religious military order that was founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century and that, headquartered in Rome, continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names and jurisdictions. The origin of the Hospitallers was an 11th-century

Mercedarian, member of a Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. Peter Nolasco in Spain in 1218 for the purpose of ransoming Christians who had been taken captive by the Moors during the Crusades. Founded as the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives, it was originally a

Ricardo Palma: …chiefly from his charmingly impudent Tradiciones peruanas (1872; “Peruvian Traditions”)—short prose sketches that mingle fact and fancy about the pageantry and intrigue of colonial Peru. His sources were the folktales, legends, and pungent gossip of his elders, in addition to historical bits gleaned from the National Library. The first six…

Knights of the Golden Circle, a semi-military secret society that was active in the Midwestern states during the American Civil War. In 1859 George Bickley, a freebooter and adventurer, launched a fraternal order which proposed the establishment of military colonies of Americans in Mexico. The

Order of the Brothers of the Sword, organization of crusading knights that began the successful conquest and Christianization of Livonia (most of modern Latvia and Estonia) between 1202 and 1237. After German merchants from Lübeck and Bremen acquired commercial interests in the lands around the

Teutonic Order, religious order that played a major role in eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and that underwent various changes in organization and residence from its founding in 1189/90 to the present. Its major residences, marking its major states of development, were: (1) Acre, Palestine

Ku Klux Klan: The original Ku Klux Klan: A similar organization, the Knights of the White Camelia, began in Louisiana in 1867.

Templar, member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model and inspiration for other military orders. Originally founded to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order

Poland: Reform under Stanisław II: In 1765 Stanisław established the Knights’ School—the first truly secular college, which promoted civil virtues and religious toleration—and criticized the treatment of towns and peasantry.

Germany: Lutheran church organization and confessionalization: The ensuing “Knights’ War” was quickly crushed. But about the same time a disturbance broke out in Wittenberg where, during Luther’s exile in the Wartburg, a group of reforming spiritualist activists forced the city council to abolish many traditional Catholic practices. Upset by this rash move, Luther…

Aristophanes: Knights: This play shows how little Aristophanes was affected by the prosecution he had incurred for Babylonians. Knights (424 bce; Greek Hippeis) consists of a violent attack on the same demagogue, Cleon, who is depicted as the favourite slave of the stupid and irascible Demos…

Knightsbridge, neighbourhood in the London boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. Located south of Hyde Park and northwest of Belgravia, in London’s West End, it is the site of stately houses and clubs and of the famous department store Harrods, Ltd. It was a village in the Middle Ages

Bugs Bunny: …Seville (1950), and the Oscar-winning Knighty-Knight Bugs (1958). What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)—an animated masterpiece which cast Bugs and Elmer Fudd in the roles of Brunhild and Siegfried in a hilariously tweaked adaptation of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung—was the first cartoon short to be inducted into the National

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, novel by Milan Kundera, written in Czech as Kniha smíchu a zapomnění but originally published in French as Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli (1979). The political situation in the former country of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), where history

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet was a painter who became the leading Baroque portraitist in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Kneller studied in Amsterdam under Ferdinand Bol, one of Rembrandt’s pupils, before going to Italy in 1672. His Elijah of that year gives evidence of a

KLM: In 1928 Plesman also founded Koninklijke Nederlandsch–Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM), the Royal Netherlands–East Indies Airlines, which in 1930 inaugurated regular flights from the Netherlands to Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies, a trip of 8,700 miles (14,000 km), until 1940 the world’s longest scheduled air route. KNILM merged…

Kevin James is an American comedian and actor best known for playing affable working-class characters, most notably Doug Heffernan in the CBS sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007) and the title character in the box-office hit movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop and its sequel (2009 and 2015). James’s real

screwworm: Development of the Sterile Insect Technique: Edward Fred Knipling, a pioneering American entomologist, developed this efficient, pesticide-free method of insect control with colleague Raymond Bushland in the mid-1900s. Given that each female mates only once, Knipling theorized that screwworms could be eradicated by sterilizing male flies in large numbers, then releasing…

Caspian Sea: Study and exploration: …led by the Russian zoologist Nikolai M. Knipovich. Regular hydrometeorological observations were started in the 1920s. Investigations of the sea are now coordinated by the Scientific Council of the Caspian Sea. The most important programs are those studying long-term fluctuations in the regime and water level of the sea, the…

Olga Knipper-Chekhova was a world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. Knipper was rejected by the drama school of the Maly Theatre in Moscow but was noticed by V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and asked to join the acting school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which he

Olga Knipper-Chekhova was a world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. Knipper was rejected by the drama school of the Maly Theatre in Moscow but was noticed by V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and asked to join the acting school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which he

Olga Knipper-Chekhova was a world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. Knipper was rejected by the drama school of the Maly Theatre in Moscow but was noticed by V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and asked to join the acting school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which he

electromagnetic radiation: X-rays: …out by Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping, not only identified X-rays with electromagnetic radiation but also initiated the use of X-rays for studying the detailed atomic structure of crystals. The interference of X-rays diffracted in certain directions from crystals in so-called X-ray diffractometers, in turn, permits the dissection of X-rays…

knish, eastern European potato snack commonly sold by street vendors in areas with large Jewish populations. Knishes are fist-size snacks consisting of mashed potatoes wrapped in paper-thin pastry dough and then baked or fried. Other varieties include fillings made from sweet potatoes, mushrooms,

plain stitch, basic knitting stitch in which each loop is drawn through other loops to the right side of the fabric. The loops form vertical rows, or wales, on the fabric face, giving it a sheen, and crosswise rows, or courses, on the back. Plain-stitch knitting is a filling knit construction and

man-made fibre: Knit-deknitting: Knit-deknit texturing may be used on drawn fibre in order to produce crimp of a knitted-loop shape. In this process a yarn is knitted into a tubular fabric, set in place by means of heat, and then unraveled to produce textured yarn.

floor covering: Unconventional carpets: tufted, knitted, and bonded: …that of Axminster looms; one machinery manufacturer has developed a yarn looping technique whereby the backing is pierced by a needle and the pile is then blown through the resulting opening. This method increases the rate of production up to about 1,200 rows of pile per minute. Patterned carpets have…

X: Intended as a one-time project, the Knitters performed a selection of folk and country tunes, along with acoustic versions of songs from the X catalog. Cervenka dedicated much of her time to poetry, publishing numerous collections and recording a series of solo albums. Doe turned to Hollywood, scoring small parts…

knitting, production of fabric by employing a continuous yarn or set of yarns to form a series of interlocking loops. Knit fabrics can generally be stretched to a greater degree than woven types. The two basic types of knits are the weft, or filling knits—including plain, rib, purl, pattern, and