The machines that knit tights produce at very high speed.
A hand knitter would understand if told to “cast on 400 stitches and knit 2,200 rows” – but the time to do it would be a little more than the 3 minutes that a modern machine takes. And that’s for both legs of the pair which is approaching 2 million stitches.
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