Show it Is related stockings that one william rider a london apprentice happening to see a pair ot knit stockings at the house of an italian merchant from mantua made a pair like them the first made in england which he presented to tha earl of pembroke 1564 the art of weaving stockings in a frame was in vented in england by the mr lee of cambridge in 1689 25 years after he had learned to knit them with needles cotton stockings were first made in 1730 the ancients wore cloth about their feet and legs and in modern europe cloth hose were in uso for generations before knit hose were known N Y american |