Frame-work-knitters

were incorporated about the year 1664, they are a master, 2 wardens, 18 assistants, but no livery. Their arms or seal (for I find them not in colours) are. Gon a chevron between 2 combs and as many leads of needles in chief, and an iron jack, lead-sinker in Base; a main spring between 2 small springs; all which parts belong to a Frame. Their hall is situated in Red-Cross-Street.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

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