Assertion: knitting | /r/CapableOf | serve for the manufacture of stockings
Facets:
value: in former days
type: TEMPORAL
value: even now,
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In former days, knitting served mainly for the manufacture of stockings, and even now, in spite of machines, handknit stockings, and numberless other useful and ornamental articles, such as shawls, counterpanes, cradle-coverings, gloves, laces etc. are in great request.