One approach appears to be "well, let's hold the stitches open in a rigid structure, then, just like knitting". This *kind of* works, except that resultant cloth... doesn't look like crochet, it looks like demented knitting, with very loose, large stitches.
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One approach appears to be "well, let's hold the stitches open in a rigid structure, then, just like knitting". This *kind of* works, except that resultant cloth... doesn't look like crochet, it looks like demented knitting, with very loose, large stitches.
Another aspect of this automation of knitting versus automation of crochet, is that the fundamental base stitch in knitting is very simple: the knit stitch. And for the hand-cranked hobbyist knitting machines, that is all that they produce: knit stitches. I assume that industrial-level knitting machines can do more, but even if they didn't, there is a large world of stuff that can be created with just knit stitches. On the other hand, the fundamental stitch in crochet is the single crochet, and that is a more complex stitch, requiring more than pulling a loop through an open loop.