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The knitted models (as well as those produced by Crum Brown in leather and in papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9) represent certain surfaces that are discussed in \\textit{C. Brown}'s paper [``On a case of interlacing surfaces'', Proc.\\ Roy.\\ Soc.\\ Ed.\\ 13, 382--386 (1885--1886; JFM 17.0522.04)], a contribution to what we now term topology. The author argues that these models were not intended merely as visual aids, but rather as a line of enquiry in their own right: ``a practical form of topological research'' (p.\\,66). Going further, the author then presents two different senses of the word `model': a `model' as a physical representation of a mathematical idea, and a `model' as a mathematical abstraction that seeks to describe a phenomenon from the material world. As a chemist who made extensive use of diagrammatic representations of molecules, Crum Brown was thus a modeller in both senses. 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