FRAMEWORK KNITTERS, The Worshipful Company of, London.

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FRAMEWORK KNITTERS, The Worshipful Company of, London. (Incorporated 13th June 1657.) Gules, on a chevron argent, between two combs and as many leads of needles in chief and an iron jack lead sinker in base, a main spring between two small springs. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a lamb proper. Supporters — (Dexter) a student of the University of Cambridge proper, vested sable ; (sinister) a woman proper, vested azure, neckerchief apron and cuffs to the gown argent, in her dexter hand a knitting-needle and in her sinister a piece of worsted knit gules. Motto — " Speed, strength, and truth united."

The foregoing are the arms as in use at the present day. Rerry in his

"Encyclopaedia Heraldica," published 1828, gives these arms, "Argent a knitting frame sable garnished or with work pendent in base gules." He cites no crest, and calls the dexter supporter a student of Oxford.

Neither version is of any authority.

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